PLATE TECTONICS BOUNDARIES

• By Spencer Oseguera
• 1/29/13
• 6th period

TYPES OF PLATE TECTONICS AND BOUNDARIES

• The three types of plate boundaries are convergent, divergent, and transform.
• However, there are there different types of convergent plate movements
• They are Continental and Oceanic, Oceanic and Continental, and Continental and Continental.

CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES

• Both Continental and Oceanic and Oceanic and Oceanic destroy the old crust and the Oceanic crust is sub ducted.
• With the Continental to continental plate boundary, the crust is neither destroyed or created.
• The process of convergent plates is them colliding into each other to make the same or different types of landmasses.

DIVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES

• The Plate Tectonics are spreading away from each other. A
• The sea floor spreads during this process which causes a new crust to form.
• Its crustal features are earthquakes, mid ocean ridges, and continental rift valleys are formed from this process.

TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARIES

• These plate boundaries are spreading away in vertical movements (north and south).
• The crust is "shearing". The crust is neither created nor destroyed but deformed into a new shape.
• The new crust features are Faults and shallow earthquakes that are caused from the spreading.

REAL LIFE EXAMPLE DIVERGENT ICELAND OCEANIC AND OCEANIC

CONVERGENT CONTINENTAL OCEANIC ANDES MOUNTAINS

CONVERGENT CONTINENTAL AND CONTINENTAL REAL LIFE EXAMPLE HIMALAYAS

CONVERGENT OCEANIC AND OCEANIC REAL LIFE EXAMPLE MARIANAS TRENCHES

TRANSFORM BOUNDARY REAL LIFE EXAMPLE SAN ANDREAS FAULT