| The Coast Ranges are therefore characterized by folds and thrust faults nearly parallel to the transform plate boundary. |
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| Instead, in the southernmost portion of the state, the plate boundary has elements of both a transform and a divergent boundary. |
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| The tectonics underlying the Sunda arc are a type of plate boundary known as a convergent boundary. |
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| We can clearly see the subducting plate boundary at least 85 km from the trench and probably much farther. |
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| In some locations two plates slide horizontally past one another, forming what is known as a transform plate boundary. |
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| As these triple junctions migrated away from each other a transform plate boundary lengthened between them. |
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| At the second type of boundary, a convergent plate boundary, two adjacent plates, come together. |
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| Two end-member models have been used to describe interplate coupling and the recurrence of great earthquakes at convergent plate boundary zones. |
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| A midocean ridge demarcated the boundary between two tectonic plates, and consequently a divergent plate boundary was formed. |
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| This band is located on the African and Eurasian tectonic plate boundary, and has repeatedly experienced moderate-to-strong earthquakes. |
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| Subduction under Asia continues in the Tethysides and contributes to tectonism in the Alpide plate boundary zone. |
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| One of the main applications of his research is the assessment of earthquake hazards in plate boundary zones and intraplate deformation regions. |
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| It was formed within divergent plate boundary settings in response to the lithologic extension related to the break-up. |
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| Figure 6 shows that volcanic high islands are found in both intraplate and convergent plate boundary situations in the Pacific. |
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| The elastic rebound theory explains that an earthquake occurs when the accumulated stress at the plate boundary reaches certain limit. |
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| In plate tectonics, a divergent boundary or divergent plate boundary is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. |
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| Convergent plate boundary tectonics is characterised by a variety of deformation patterns from subduction orogenesis to continental collision zones. |
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| Where the asthenosphere sinks back down to deeper levels, it drags the overlying plate down with it, creating a convergent plate boundary called a subduction zone. |
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| Throughout late Cenozoic time, the transform plate boundary grew more extensive, as larger areas of the Pacific Plate came into contact with the western edge of North America. |
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| The earthquake ruptured the San Sebastian system fault, one of the many structures along the transform plate boundary that separates South America from the Caribbean plate. |
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| Subduction-zone volcanoes occur on the overriding plate and are offset inland from the actual plate boundary along the ocean trench. |
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| Straddling an active continental plate boundary, the region is often hit by earthquakes. |
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| Occasionally, earthquakes rupture the plate boundary, and Hokkaido rebounds and rises slightly. |
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| At the uppermost part of the plate boundary, though, the figure was closer to a hundred feet. |
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| The Mid-Atlantic Ridge plate boundary, separating the North American and the Eurasian plates, extends through the centre of Iceland. |
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| Between the island chain and the closest plate boundary in California lie approximately 3000 km of nothing but solid Pacific Plate. |
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| The main assumptions are that the plate boundary follows Coulomb's law of shear strength, and that the plate is an elastic homogeneous and isotropic body. |
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| One of the prerequisites is a strong fault surface — a plate boundary or rock fracture with a high coefficient of friction, like a skid-resistant pad under an area rug. |
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| Even Iceland, which like Hawaii is an island in the middle of an ocean, is located on a plate boundary straddling the margin between Europe and North America. |
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| The movement causes stresses to build up at the plate boundary. |
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| Temperatures can also exceed the solidus of a crustal rock in continental crust thickened by compression at a plate boundary. |
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| Plates seperate and grow at oceanic ridges, disappear at subduction zones, and in places grind past one another on great faults. Distinctive associations of different rock types form in each of these plate boundary settings. |
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| Seamount structure, basin stratigraphy and active tectonics of the Eurasian-African transpressional plate boundary, below the western Atlantic Ocean. |
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| Subduction typically occurs at a moderately steep angle right at the point of the convergent plate boundary. |
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| This rift valley is the landward extension of the huge Syrian-African Rift Valley System, formed along a tectonic plate boundary zone that stretches from the Indian Ocean, through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Eliat. |
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| North of the Alpide plate boundary zone are the vast expanses of Siberia, where the absence of seismic activity and the subdued relief indicate an absence of active tectonism. |
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| Over millions of years, tectonic plates may move many hundreds of kilometers away from both sides of a divergent plate boundary. |
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| The Sunda megathrust is located at a convergent plate boundary where it forms the interface between the overriding Eurasian plate and the subducting Indo-Australian plate. |
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| From 95 Ma, the age of subducted oceanic crust decreased progressively until arrival of the Pacific-Farallon spreading center led to termination of subduction and conversion to a transform plate boundary. |
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| Normal faulting mechanisms observed in the northern foothills of the Central Western Pyrenees are remarkable, since one expects thrust faults at a convergent plate boundary. |
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| This refers to whether a crustal boundary between oceanic lithosphere and continental lithosphere is a plate boundary or not. |
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| Therefore, these earthquakes occurred not along the plate boundary, but within the subducting Indian Plate, reflecting its negative buoyancy or slab pull. |
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| For this reason, divergent plate boundary islands are comparatively few and usually emergent only when other processes have contributed to their upgrowth. |
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| A rift valley is formed on a divergent plate boundary, a crustal extension, a spreading apart of the surface, which is subsequently further deepened by the forces of erosion. |
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| The location where two plates meet is called a plate boundary. |
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| Current research indicates that complex convection within the Earth's mantle allows material to rise to the base of the lithosphere beneath each divergent plate boundary. |
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| Fluids escaping from the shallowest parts of a subduction zone may also escape along the plate boundary but have rarely been observed draining along the trench axis. |
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| Sylvester points to the Cascadia subduction zone, a plate boundary that stretches from Vancouver to Northern California, as the cause of these threats. |
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