Monday, February 25, 2013

Type of movements

           Comparing and contrasting different type of movements

 Divergent boundaries when plates move apart from each other. An example is Iceland, where the place is splitting along the mid-Atlantic ridge, a divergent boundary between the North American and Eurasian Plates. Over time, if there is a complete split, the two land masses will become separated and the body of water surrounding Iceland will fill in the gap.
 Transform fault boundaries are where two plates are sliding horizontally past one another and thus form faults. An example is the boundary on the west coast of the United States.

Convergent boundary is when two plates come together. There are three types of different convergent boundaries, Oceanic- continental, oceanic-oceanic, continental-continental. This type of boundary is not as common as the other ones in recent times.