plate boundary

American  

[playt baund-er-ee, baun-dree] / ˈpleɪt ˈbaʊnd ər i, ˈbaʊn dri /

noun

1. Geology. Also called tectonic boundary, tectonic plate boundary, a bordering edge between two tectonic plates, along which most volcanic and earthquake activity occurs as the plates push into each other, pull apart from each other, or slide against each other.

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Example Sentences

The new research indicates that between about 37 and 24 million years ago, a plate boundary separating Europe and Africa temporarily passed through this part of the North Atlantic.

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Before the plate boundary moved into the area, the oceanic crust there had already become unusually thick and heated.

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"This thickened, heated crust may have made the region mechanically weaker, so that the plate boundary preferentially shifted here," explains co-author PD Dr. Jörg Geldmacher, marine geologist at GEOMAR.

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"When the plate boundary later moved further south towards the modern Azores, the formation of the King's Trough also came to a halt."

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"The plate boundary seems not to be where we thought it was."

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