or plates. As these plates move over the Earth's fluid mantle, they interact with each other, forming plate boundaries or zones. Areas where plates are colliding form convergent boundaries, and areas where plates are expanding create divergent boundaries. Rift valleys are formed by divergent...
Between the spreading segments, the sides of the transform boundary rub together; but as soon as the seafloor spreads beyond the overlap, the two sides stop rubbing and travel abreast. The result is a split in the crust, called a fracture zone, that extends across the seafloor far beyond th...
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....
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...