Exercise 2 Before starting this exercise, please view the following two uts vide

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Exercise 2 Before starting this exercise, please view the following two uts videos etps:/wwww.youtube.comwatchlmWOs1 L3IA Plate motions range tun 1-10 cm'year. If the North American Place is moving west-southwest at uhout 2.3 cmyear, and assuaaing this rae has heen steady for one million years, bow far and in rkat direction will the North American Plate have mored in one million years? Please set up your problem (skesches are very helpful) and show all your work. Dox skip steps. Please remember your units! Please submit your soluion into blackboard by noon on October 10 and be prepared to go over your solution at the start of your lecture. Euroasian Plate passive continental marg North American Plate Pacific Plate Map showingthe active and pave contioeal agis n relation to the bundaies oflthe North Ameican Plat

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The rate of movement is 2.3 cm/year for onw million years (106 years). So the total movement is,

2.3 * 106 cm = 23 Km

The plate is moving west-southwest so the plate will be moving 23 Km ahead in WSW direction.

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