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kap26 [50]
3 years ago
5

How does the plate boundary along the west coast of the United States change over time?

Chemistry
2 answers:
Tanzania [10]3 years ago
7 0

The North American plate is moving towards the west-southwest at about 2.3 centimeters every year mediated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the spreading center, which gave rise to the Atlantic Ocean. The small Juan De Fuca plate, moving east-northeast at 4 centimeters every year, was once a component of much greater oceanic plates known as the Farallon plate.  

The Farallon plate used to comprise what is now the Cocos plate of Mexico and Central America, and the Juan de Fuca plate in the region from N. Vancouver Island to the Cape Mendicino California, and a big sea floor tract in between. However, the middle portion of the Old Farallon plate disappeared underneath North America, it was subducted underneath California leaving the San Andreas fault system behind as the contact between the Pacific plates and North America.  

The Juan De Fuca plate is still actively subducting underneath North America. Its movement is not smooth, however, rather sticky. The buildup of strain takes place until the fault dissociates and a few meters of Juan De Fuca get slid underneath North America in a big earthquake.  


Nostrana [21]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:  The correct answer is :  At the moment when the subduction occurs (sinking of the oceanic lithospheric plate under another plate, either oceanic or continental), the heating caused by friction that is caused by a plate that is submerged below another, can produce a sufficient amount of heat to form volcanoes and give rise to a curved chain of volcanoes called arc.

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