The coast of Algeria, together with the northern coasts of Tunisia and Morocco, lie on the line where what two tectonic plates meet?
Eurasian and Nubian At convergent boundaries, continental crust is created and oceanic crust is destroyed as it subducts, melts, and becomes magma. The highest mountain range above sea level, the Himalayas, was formed 55 million years ago when the Eurasian and Indo-Australian continental plates converged.
Glacier-formed fjords can be found on the coasts of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska, north east Siberia, the Kerguelen Islands, New Zealand, British Columbia, Nunavut, Washington and where else?
What country in North Africa, bordered by Tunisia, Libya, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco and the Mediterranean Sea, is the largest country on the Mediterranean, on the African continent and in the Arab world?
Two tectonic plates and small corners of two others lie under the African continent. These are the African Plate, part of the Eurasian and the Arabian Plates and which other?
