Plate Boundaries by Chris Merkert is licensed under CC BY 3.0. These areas are often associated with high seismicity, as stresses that build up in the sliding crustal slabs are released at intervals to generate earthquakes. NASA Scientist Reveals Greenland's Geologic Past by NASA is in the public domain. Transform faults or transform boundaries also link different types of plate boundaries. type of plate boundary, the transform variety, two plates slide parallel to one another in opposite directions. HayWired Scenario by USGS is in the public domain. doi: Įarthquake Inside House Sound Effect (4K Subscribers Special) by Chander Prakash is licensed under CC BY 3.0. For more information, see Robert Stern, Warren Lieu, Asya Mantey, Andrew Ward, Todd Fechter, Eric Farrar, Sean McComber, Jeffrey Windler: A new animation of subduction zone processes developed for the undergraduate and community college audience. (2017) are used in this video with permission from the author. Plate tectonics animation clips from Stern et al. Videography by: Vratislav Karas, Rob Parker, Harriet Ridley. Written and developed by: Rhian Meara, Rich Waller, Rob Parker, Harriet Ridley, Tony Escritt, Tim Parker. In this video, the Time for Geography team is in Iceland with tour guide Tony Escritt from Trex - Travel Experiences and tectonics expert Dr Rhian Meara to learn more about conservative plate boundaries and why they produce large earthquakes. Southwest Iceland experiences earthquakes because it's located right on top of a conservative-or transform-plate boundary, where two tectonic plate move past each other side by side.

Transform plate boundary