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Ridge: "Parts of the plate boundaries consisting of alternations of relatively short transform fault and spreading ridge segments are represented by a boundary following the general trend." As a result, the eastward-moving and more dense Nazca plate is subducting under the western edge of the South American plate, along the continent's Pacific coast, at a rate of 77 mm per year. The collision of these two plates is responsible for lifting the massive Andes Mountains

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