As observed in Lesson 3, at low pressures and temperatures rock is a brittle material that will fail by fracture if the stresses become sufficiently large. When a lateral displacement takes place ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ... Mountains and a rift can be seen along the San Andreas Fault.

The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth. Deep below the Earth ...

This sudden jerk creates an earthquake. 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.

This is called a destructive or convergent plate boundary ... like at the San Andreas Fault in the USA, which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.