Nazca Plate

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #fc6000">We are all aware about the fact that tectonic plates are pieces of the earth’s crust. One such important division is the Nazca Plate. A major tectonic division of the earth’s crust, the Nazca Plate is bordered by the vast Pacific Plate on the west, by the Antarctic Plate on the south, on the north lies the Cocos Plate and it shares a small convergent boundary with the Caribbean Plate to the northeast. Also, it shares a convergent boundary with the South American continental plate, along which it is being subducted under the continent. The Chile–Peru trench marks the subduction of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate and this trench lies offshore and is full of deposits of metals. The Nazca Plate is named after the Nazca region in southern Peru.</p>
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Divergent Boundary

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #D5BC93">There are small and large tectonic plates that cover the earth. These plates are either oceanic or continental. They exhibit movements of divergence and convergence. Divergent boundaries are places where the tectonic plates pull away from each other. A new lithosphere is created as the old slips away and spreads to the either side. When two oceanic plates diverge, magma from the mantle wells up in space and a new lithosphere is formed. On the other hand, when two continental plates diverge, a rift–like valley is created at places where the plates are pulling apart. Divergent plate’s boundaries are characterized by volcanic eruptions, low intensity earthquakes, a high ridge and a young lithosphere. Eventually, the widening crust may become thin enough to break away and form a new tectonic plate and water may rush in to form a new sea or an ocean basin.</p>
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Transform Boundary

<p style="color:#dbdbdb ;padding:20px; border-left:5px solid #7f7f7f;">A Transform Boundary, also known as the Conservative Boundary, is created due to the action of two tectonic plates that slide past each other in sideways motion. It is also known as the Conservative Plate Boundary as these faults neither create nor destroy the Lithosphere. Its relative motion is mostly horizontal, in either sinistral or dextral direction. In simple words, Transform Boundaries are places where plates slide past each other. The boundaries lack spectacular features found at the Convergent and Divergent Boundaries since the plates on the either side merely slide past each other and not tear or crunch it. However, they are marked in places which have linear valleys where rock has been ground up by the sliding. </p>
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