Currently the Juan de Fuca plate is interacting with the North American plate where inland volcanoes and deep focus earthquakes are occurring. What type of plate boundary is this? View Available Hint (s) Hint 1. opened hint The Juan de Fuca plate carries predominantly oceanic crust, while the North American plate has an abundance of continental crust. What type of interaction between oceanic and continental plates is associated with volcanic activity? Currently the Juan de Fuca plate is interacting with the North American plate where inland volcanoes and deep focus earthquakes are occurring. What type of plate boundary is this? a continental rift zone a divergent plate boundary a mantle plume a transform boundary a convergent plate boundary

The correct answer is - a convergent boundary.

The Juan de Fuca plate is one of the smallest plates on the planet. It hasn't always been that way though, as in the geologic past this plate has been very large. As the time passed though, this plate started to subduct under the North American plate, in fact most of it is already subducted. In he present, this plate is subducting in the northwestern part of the North American plate, it is fragmented into three smaller pieces, and even though the name officially still goes for all of them as a whole, very often the name is used just for the central part of it.

The convergent plate boundary and the subduction as a result of it, has caused the formation of mountain ranges along the western side of the North American continent, between southern British Columbia and the northern part of California.