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location of plate boundaries
DIVERGENT / CONSTRUCTIVE
Mid-Atlantic Ridge – Atlantic Ocean
East African Rift – East Africa
Red Sea – Africa + Arabian Plate
East Pacific Rise – Pacific Ocean
Key example:
Mid-Atlantic Ridge
North American Plate ↔ Eurasian Plate
South American Plate ↔ African Plate
ONVERGENT / DESTRUCTIVE
Oceanic + Continental
West coast of South America
Nazca Plate + South American Plate
Andes Mountains
Peru–Chile Trench
Oceanic + Oceanic
Japan
Pacific Plate + surrounding plates
Japan Trench
Volcanic island arc
Continental + Continental
Himalayas
Indian Plate + Eurasian Plate
Fold mountains
Powerful earthquakes
TRANSFORM / CONSERVATIVE
San Andreas Fault – California, USA
Pacific Plate + North American Plate
Plates slide past each other
Frequent earthquakes
No crust created or destroyed
MAJOR PLATE BOUNDARY LOCATIONS
Pacific Ring of Fire → mainly convergent boundaries + volcanoes + earthquakes
Mid-Atlantic Ridge → divergent boundary
East African Rift → continental divergent boundary
Andes → oceanic–continental convergent boundary
Himalayas → continental–continental convergent boundary
Japan → convergent boundary
San Andreas Fault → conservative boundary