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| When two plates slide against each other in a sideways motion. As two plates slide past one another, in a transform boundary, neither plate is added to at the boundary, nor destroyed. [image] |
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| Two or more tectonic plates or fragments of lithosphere move toward one another and collide.[image] |
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| A linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.[image] |
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| The surface of the Earth is made up of a number of rigid plates moving relative to each other, separating at mid-oceanic ridges where new ocean-floor is produced and converging at subduction zones.[image] |
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