please answer each in detail: 1. What geologic features indicate the presence of

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please answer each in detail:

1. What geologic features indicate the presence of a divergent boundary? Give an example of a location on Earth where you can find a divergent plate boundary.

2. What geologic features indicate the presence of a convergent boundary with a subduction zone? Give an example on Earth where you can find one.

3. What geologic features indicate the presence of a convergent boundary without a subduction zone? Give an example on Earth where you can find one.

4. What geologic features indicate the presence of a transform boundary? Give an example on Earth where you can find one.

Explanation / Answer

1) mid oceanic ridge, example mid Atlantic ridge

Divergent boundaries are those along which two tectonic plates move away from each other.

2) trench and island arcs , example mariana trench

Convergent boundaries are those where two tectonic plates are converging together to produce either mountains or subduction zones

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