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 ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives ... forming deep trenches like the Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean, the deepest point on Earth.

This volcanic arc delineates the boundary between the Pacific and ... This zone marks the interface where the denser Pacific oceanic plate subducts beneath the less dense continental North ...

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.

The Pacific and Australian plates collide and ... and at strike-slip boundaries plates slide past each other. But none of these plate boundaries are static; instead, they change constantly and ...

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