but now it is being turned into a new plate boundary. The depressions are indicative of a strike-slip fault, which is the same kind of fault as the San Andreas Fault in California.(Image credit: Aurélie
What happens at divergent plate boundaries in the continental crust? If the Earth?s crust is growing at mid-ocean ridges, why doesn?t the Earth grow larger? What is formed by fluvial erosion? What forms at a divergent boundary? What causes the large-scale Rossby waves?