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Transform boundaries are where two plates grind past each other along what are called strike slip plates. These boundaries don't produce spectacular features like mountains or oceans. The halting motion often triggers large earthquakessuch as the earthquake in 1906. The earthquake of 1906 was caused by the San Andreas fault. The Earthquake was started when the two plates grind past each other and form a crack and one of the cracks was the San Andreas fault. They say that a great example of a transform boundary is the great crack called the San Andreas fault. the San Andreas fault was caused by the grinding of the plates as they pass which push's the suface apart and starts to form a crack which usually ends up occurring in an earthquake.



Convergent boundaries are where plates serving land masses collide and the crust crumbles and buckles into mountain ranges. Convergent boundaries also occur where oceans dive,in process called subduction,under a land mass. subduction is when the plate's dive under the ocean plates and when they collide under another. Also when the diving plates melts it is often spewed out in volcanic eruptions such as those that formed the mountains such as the andes mountains. as the mash-up continues the mountain regions will begin to get higher. An example of convergent boundaries are the Himalayan mountains. The Himalayan mountains are the tallest mountain region in the world.

Divergent boundaries are when magma rises and pushes the plates away. Mountains and volcanoes rise along the seam. The process renews the surface of the ocean floor and widens the giant basins. Giant troughs such as the great rift valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. The consequence of Divergent boundary movement will be easy to tell. When existing cracks have widened New cracks will appear. When continental crust streche's tensio bisins will appear on the earths crust. Plate seperation is a slowly moving process for Divergent plate boundaries.//nettreker//.

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