Conservative Margin

• Which plate margin has no volcanoes?

  Conservative
• What are the arrows like a conservative plate margin?

  Moving past each other
• What plate boundary is this ?

  Conservative

  
• Conservative plate margins forming earthquakes:

  • Plates move past each other or side by side moving at different speeds.
  • As the plates move friction occurs and the plates become stuck.
  • Pressure builds up.
  • When pressure is released, it sends out huge amounts of energy, causing an earthquakes.
  • These earthquakes can be very destructive as they occur close to the Earth’s surface
• Volcanoes forming at conservative plate margin:


  There are no volcanoes at a conservative plate margin
• Give an example of a conservative plate margin and its characteristics:


  San Andreas fault, California America

  -The Plates are the Pacific Plate and North American Plate

  -The faster moving Pacific plate is sliding in the same direction next to the slower-moving North American Plate