Scribd
Upload
22 views2 pages

Geologic Features of Plate Boundaries

The document provides a table to classify different types of plate boundaries including convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries. It lists examples of specific plate interactions for each boundary type along with diagrams and locations. The table also identifies common geologic events, features, and processes associated with each plate boundary type such as earthquakes, volcanoes, trench formation, and mountain building.

Uploaded by

FO VC
Copyright
© All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
22 views2 pages

Geologic Features of Plate Boundaries

The document provides a table to classify different types of plate boundaries including convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries. It lists examples of specific plate interactions for each boundary type along with diagrams and locations. The table also identifies common geologic events, features, and processes associated with each plate boundary type such as earthquakes, volcanoes, trench formation, and mountain building.

Uploaded by

FO VC
Copyright
© All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd

Name: MARTINA MONICA N.

CALLEDO 10-NEATNESS
Directions: Complete the table below.

Types of
Specific Example (e.g. Geologic
Plate Boundary Plate(s) Diagram to show what happen Location
name of plates) Events/Features/Processes
Involved
Converging Continental Near Sumatra forming
Continental Plate Australian Plate and the Sunda Trench Trench
Plate and Oceanic Eurasian Plate Cascades Range in US Volcano
Oceanic Plate Nazca Plate & South Andes in South America Earthquake
Plate American Plate Peru-Chile Trench Subduction Process
Volcanic arc on land

Converging Two Indian Plate & Eurasian Fold Mountains Shallow Earthquakes
of Two Continental Plate (e.g. Himalayas, Europe
Continental Plate Alps, Appalachian)
Convergen Plate
t

Converging Two Philippine Plate & Pacific Oceanic Trench (e.g. Subduction Process
of Two Oceanic Plate Mariana Trench) Earthquake
Oceanic Plate Aleutian Islands Volcano
Plate

Divergent Diverging Two Nubian Plate & Somalian East African Rift Valleys rift valley
Two Continental Plate (in Africa) Guld of California volcanoes
Continental Plate Red Sea young lava flows
Plate New Crust Formation
Earthquakes
Types of
Specific Example (e.g. Geologic
Plate Boundary Plate(s) Diagram to show what happen Location
name of plates) Events/Features/Processes
Involved
Diverging North American Plate & Mid Atlantic Ridge New Crust Formation
Two Oceanic Two Eurasian Plate or East Pacific Ridge Sea-floor spreading
Plate Oceanic South American Plate & Earthquakes
Plate Eurasian Plate Volcanoes (approximately
80% of Earth’s volcanic
activitiy)

Transforming Two Pacific Plate & North San Andreas Fault Earthquakes
Two Continental American Plate Queen Charlotte Fault Fault
Continental Plate
Plate

Transform
Transforming Two Pacific Plate & Gorda Plate Mendocino Fault, Earthquakes
Two Oceanic Oceanic Fault
Plate Plate Pacific Plate & Antarctic Eltanin Fault (between
Plate mid-ocean ridges)

You might also like