It is called the Peru-Chile Trench. It reaches depths of more than 24,000 ft.
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The Andes mountain range is located near the Peru-Chile Trench in South America.
Chile is located on a tectonic plate boundery and a subduction zone called the Peru-Chile trench. Very violent earthquakes happen at subduction zones.
The subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate.
no that's wrong. they are formed when one lithospheric plate meets another and the denser plate subducts into the asthenosphere. the crust melts in the subduction zone and rises to form active volcanoes. The Andes in Peru and Chile formed this way
The trench would represent the divide between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates.
oceanic-continental convergence
The 1960 southern Chile earthquake occurred due to the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate along the Peru-Chile Trench. This subduction zone is part of the larger Pacific Ring of Fire where tectonic plates meet and seismic activity is common.
The Trench and Andes are on the boundaries of the Nazca and South American Plates. Both of those landforms are the result of a subducting Nazca Plate.
The Trench and Andes are on the boundaries of the Nazca and South American Plates. Both of those landforms are the result of a subducting Nazca Plate.
Subduction zones are formed where tectonic plates converge, typically at deep-ocean trenches such as the Peru-Chile Trench in South America and the Japan Trench in the western Pacific Ocean. At these locations, one tectonic plate is forced beneath another, leading to the formation of a subduction zone.