The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world. To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest. To the east is the North American ...

Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American ... These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called ...

Plate boundaries are where the action is. A large fraction of all earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building occurs at plate boundaries. It is also where most of the people on Earth live.

This volcanic arc delineates the boundary between the Pacific and ... plate subducts beneath the less dense continental North American plate. As the subducted plate descends, the heat from the ...

Most constructive plate boundaries are found on ocean floors ... is along the San Andreas Fault where the Pacific and the North American plates are sliding past each other.