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Plate Movement
Plate Movement
Challenger Deep got its name from the British survey ship Challenger II,
which pinpointed the deep water off the Marianas Islands in 1951.
Type 2
• Ocean plate colliding with
another ocean plate
• The less dense plate slides
under the more dense plate
creating a subduction zone
called a TRENCH
Type 3
• A continental plate colliding
with another continental plate
• Have Collision Zones:
–a place where folded and thrust
faulted mountains form.
CONSERVATIVE/ Converse
Fault Boundaries
• Boundary between two plates
that are sliding past each other
• EARTHQUAKES along faults
3-4 Conservative
Mantle Plume
Plate-boundary zones
Not all plate boundaries are as simple as the main types
discussed above. In some regions, the boundaries are not well
defined because the plate-movement deformation occurring
there extends over a broad belt (called a plate-boundary zone).
One of these zones marks the Mediterranean-Alpine region
between the Eurasian and African Plates, within which several
smaller fragments of plates (microplates) have been
recognized. Because plate-boundary zones involve at least two
large plates and one or more microplates caught up between
them, they tend to have complicated geological structures and
earthquake patterns.