Examples of Rift Valleys The East Africa Rift Valley is an example of a very young divergent boundary. Here, the valley is still above sea level, but several lakes have formed. This boundary zone will continue to rift until the valley floor has dropped below sea level. The Red Sea is an...
East African Rift. East Pacific Rise. Gakkel Ridge. Galapagos Rise. Explorer Ridge. What landforms are created by Transform boundaries? Linear valleys, small ponds, stream beds split in half, deep trenches, and scarps and ridgesoften mark the location of a transform boundary. ...
What type of tectonic plate boundary exists along the edge of the North American plate near the coast of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington? a) Transform b) Compressional c) Convergent d) Divergent Which of the following conditions must be met for coal to form? - I....
located on the divergent boundary of the Pacific Plate and the Cocos Plate (west of Central America), the Nazca Plate (west of South America), and the Antarctic Plate. The largest known group of volcanoes on Earth is found underwater along the portion of the East Pacific Rise between the ...
Three types of plate boundary. Geology (from Greek: γη, gê, "earth"; and λόγος, logos, "speech" lit. to talk about the earth) is the science and study of the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth. The field of geology encompasses the study of the composition...