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What is a name of a plate between the Pacific and South American plates?
it is nazca plate
What plates are on either side of the east pacific rise?
The East Pacific Rise is situated between the Pacific Plate to the west and the Nazca Plate to the east.
What plate contains only oceanic crust?
The Pacific Plate is predominantly oceanic crust. It is one of the Earth's largest tectonic plates and is mostly submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean.
What is the area around the pacific plate where it collides with other plates?
The area around the Pacific Plate where it collides with other plates is known as the Ring of Fire. This region is characterized by intense tectonic activity, including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain-building. The Ring of Fire is located in the Pacific Ocean basin and is where the majority of the world's earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
Which plates touch the antarctic plate?
The Antarctic plate is surrounded by the South American, African, Australian, and Pacific plates. It interacts with these plates along its boundaries, where tectonic activity such as subduction or spreading occurs.
What are Major lithosphere plates?
nazca and pacific
Name a plate that is entirely made of continental crust?
All major plates contain both continental and oceanic crust except for the Pacific and Nazca plates.
What is a name of a plate between the Pacific and South American plates?
it is nazca plate
What two plates are inter acting in the Andes mountains?
The Nazca plate and the Pacific plate
What plates are is the earth made of?
The earth is not made up of only 3 plates. Some plates are the north and south American plates, the nazca plate, the pacific plate, the Australian plate, the eurasian plate, and the African plate. The plates are made from an igneous rock called basalt, and it also has some granite.
What plates are on either side of the east pacific rise?
The East Pacific Rise is situated between the Pacific Plate to the west and the Nazca Plate to the east.
Which two tectonic plates are moving away from each other fastest?
The Nazca plate and the Cocos (pacific) plate.
The East Pacific Rise separates the Nazca Plate from the Plate?
The East Pacific Rise separates the Pacific Plate from the Nazca Plate. It is a divergent boundary where the two plates are moving away from each other, leading to the formation of new oceanic crust. This process is driven by seafloor spreading.
What are the 2 oceanic plates?
The names are African, North American, South American, Eurasian, Australian, Antarctic, and Pacific plates. Several minor ones include the Arabian, Nazca, and Philippines plate. http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html
What are lithosphere plates?
nazca and pacific
Is the pacific ring of fire next to a fault line?
Not a fault line, many fault lines. The Pacific Ring of Fire consists of a series of plate boundaries that border the edges of the Pacific, Nazca, and Cocos plates and a few minor plates that form the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
What is the name of a plate between the pacific and south American plate?
The plate located between the Pacific and South American plates is called the Nazca Plate. It is known for its subduction beneath the South American Plate along the Peru-Chile Trench.
