Plate Boundaries- Characteristics and Examples

Type of Types of Plates Topography Geologic Events Examples

Boundary Involved
Seafloor
spreading,
Mid-Atlantic
Ocean – Ocean Mid-ocean ridge earthquakes,
ridge
rising magma,
volcanoes
Divergent
Continents torn
apart,
Continent-
Rift valley earthquakes, East African rift
Continent
volcanoes, rising
magma
Subduction,
rising magma, Western
Island arcs and
Ocean – Ocean volcanoes, Aleutian
ocean trenches
deformation of earthquakes
rocks
Subduction,
earthquakes,
Convergent
Ocean – Mountains and rising magma,
Andes
Continent trenches volcanoes,
deformation of
rocks
Earthquakes,
Continent -
Mountains deformation of Himalayas
Continent
rocks
Major offset of Offset of East
Ocean – Ocean mid-oceanic Earthquakes Pacific rise in the
ridge axis South Pacific
Small deformed
Transform
mountain Earthquakes,
Continent - San Andreas
ranges, deformation of
Continent Fault
deformation rocks
along fault
Topic: Plate Boundaries