Earths Plates

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Earths Plates

• www.semp.us/_images/biots/Biot505PhotoJ.gif

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Divergent Boundaries
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Divergent Boundary Oceanic crust

• Pacific Plate and Cocos Plate, southwest of Mexico

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Divergent Boundary

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge Iceland

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Divergent Boundary Continental Crust
kenya.lodgesafari.com/images/kenya-great-rift
anthro.palomar.edu/earlyprimates/images/

• Great Rift Valley, East Africa

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Convergent Boundaries

• Oceanic-continental convergent boundary

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Convergent Boundary Oceanic and Continental
Crust

• Andes Mountain Range,
• Chile or Argentina

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Convergent Boundary
Oceanic-oceanic boundary
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Convergent Boundary Oceanic and Oceanic Crust
images.dailyradar.com/media/uploads/science/
Nereus vehicle reached the bottom, 10,902 m (6.8
miles) on May 31, 2009. This is the deepest
known part of the ocean, and the pressure is
1,000 times that at the surface. That is like
Venus!
wetlab.coralhead.com/.../04/mariana-trench

• Mariana Trench Pacific plate subducts under
  Mariana plate

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Convergent Boundary Oceanic and Oceanic Crust

• Aleutian Island Arc off of Alaska

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Convergent Boundary
- www.extremescience.com/graphics/Deform.gif

• Continental-continental boundary

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Convergent Boundary Continental and Continental
Crust

• Himalayas, India or Nepal

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Transform Boundaries
www2.stkc.go.th/.../OFFLINE/LO403/images/4_1.jpg

• Diagram of a transform boundary

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Transform Boundary Continental Crust

• San Andreas Fault, California

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How did this form?
http//serc.carleton.edu

• Hint this is a specific type of basalt

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What happened here?
farm3.static.flickr.com/2034/2136965694_72370.
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What is this?
www.vulkaner.no/v/vulkinfo/tomtech/image004.jpg

• This is an underwater image showing elevation
  changes

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What happened here?

• http//www.geomapapp.org/gallery/Midoceanridgesgal
  lery.html

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What are some ways these might have formed?

• What other information do you need?