GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The San Andreas Fault is the transform plate boundary where a thin sliver of western California, as part of the Pacific Plate, slides north-northwestward past the rest of North America.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Ring of Fire, also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt, is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes. Its length is approximately 40, 000 kilometers (24, 900 miles).

Detailed explanation-3: -The Aleutian subduction zone is a 2, 500 mi (4, 000 km) long convergent boundary between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate, that extends from the Alaska Range to the Kamchatka Peninsula.

Detailed explanation-4: -3.1. [9] The North American plate is separated from the Caribbean plate by a left-lateral transform boundary that accommodates the westward migration of the North American plate (Figure 1).

Detailed explanation-5: -The San Andreas fault line formed about 30 million years ago as the North American plate engulfed nearly all of the Farallon plate. Since then, the North American plate has ground against the Pacific plate at a boundary called a strike-slip fault.