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Transform

Transform boundaries are when two plate tectonics slide past each other. These boundaries do not cause structures such as mountains or volcanoes, but do cause earthquakes. Movement is not very uniform in the transform boundaries. These also cause ocean ridges because there are fracture zones in the ocean, and the transform boundaries set them off.
 * The San Andreas fault runs 800 miles. It starts in California and runs through the U.S.A. It forms the tectonic boundary between Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
 * The North Anatolian Fault is located in Eastern Turkey. It is a lateral fault which runs along the tectonic boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Anatolian Fault.
 * The Alpine Fault is located in New Zealand and almost runs all of its south island. It is a boundary between the Pacific Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate.



[|sanandreas3.jpg] //An Aerial View of the San Andreas Fault in the Carrizo Plain, Central California //. //How Earthquakes Happen //. Web. 4 Nov. 2009. <[]>.

Convergent

Convergent boundaries are plates that collied into each other. As these plates collide, they form mountains. Usually one of the plates go under and one goes over top causing trenches. But others collide and both go up creating the mountains.
 * The Marinara Trench is in the West Pacific and it the the biggest trench.
 * Diving plates can melt often spewed out in volcanic eruptions such as the Andes Mountains of South America.
 * There was a Island created because of these plates colliding over by Japan. Japan is located east of Europe.

[|convergent1.jpg] Shaw, Cindy.2005. McGraw Hill Higher Education. //Science-Art //. Web. 4 Nov. 2009. <[]>.

Divergent

These plates push away from each other because of magma rising from deep in Earth's mantle. This process can widen baisans. Pangea used to be one big continent now it is split up into many other land masses.
 * The Great Rift Valley in Africa were to keep pulling apart, In millions of years it would split up into different land masses.
 * The Mid Alantic Ridge is a Divergent boundary between the North American and Eurasian Plates.
 * As North American Plates move west, The Eurassia plates move east, new crust is created. Eventually the will hit and form a new continent.

 [|divergent1.jpg] //Divergent Boundary //. NASA. //Why isn't the earth perfect //. Web. 4 Nov. 2009. <[]>.

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