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 ...

Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American ... These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called ...

This volcanic arc delineates the boundary between the ... where the denser Pacific oceanic plate subducts beneath the less dense continental North American plate. As the subducted plate descends ...