The scientists say the Juan de Fuca Plate (a fault line) is slowly slipping here beneath the North American Plate. The process is known as subduction. Immense pressure builds over time between the ...

Strike-slip faults are typically associated with transform plate boundaries. One of the most well-known examples is the San Andreas Fault in California, where the Pacific Plate and North American ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

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An animation of the Plate Tectonics process of Convergent boundaries, also called Orogeny, that form certain mountains chains. Tingvellir National Park, Walk between two tectonic plates. The ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a megathrust fault or the meeting of two tectonic plates. The Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North American plate at a convergent boundary.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a megathrust fault or the meeting of two tectonic plates. The Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North American plate at a convergent boundary.