A convergent boundary (also known as a destructive boundary) is an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide. One plate eventually slides...

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Earth's distinctive plate tectonics. They mark the locations of convergent plate boundaries, along which lithospheric plates move towards each other at rates...

refer to: Convergent boundary, a type of plate tectonic boundary Convergent (continued fraction) Convergent evolution Convergent series Convergent may also...

types: Convergent boundaries are areas where plates move toward each other and collide. These are also known as compressional or destructive boundaries. Obduction...

Fuca Ridge Pacific-Antarctic Ridge Southeast Indian Ridge Convergent boundary Transform boundary Seafloor spreading – Geological process at mid-ocean ridges...

The plate forms a convergent boundary by subducting under the Philippine Sea plate creating the Mariana Trench, has a transform boundary with the Caroline...

plates meet, their relative motion determines the type of plate boundary (or fault): convergent, divergent, or transform. The relative movement of the plates...

Plate; the westerly edge is a convergent boundary with the subducting Nazca plate; and the northerly edge is a boundary with the Caribbean plate and the...

continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates. Where one tectonic plate converges with...

collision results in a convergent boundary, a topic covered in plate tectonics. The approximate alignment of so many convergent boundaries trending east to...

an arc-shaped chain of volcanoes closely situated parallel to a convergent boundary between two converging tectonic plates) from the west around 1.5...

may have already occurred. The eastern side of the plate is the convergent boundary with the Pacific plate. The Pacific plate sinks below the Australian...

transform fault boundary, vertical if along a convergent boundary (i.e. subduction or thrust/reverse faulting) or a divergent boundary (i.e. rift zone...

The Hellenic subduction zone (HSZ) is the convergent boundary between the African plate and the Aegean Sea plate, where oceanic crust of the African continent...

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form as a result of a divergent boundary in plate tectonics (such as the Arabian Peninsula), while a convergent boundary may also form peninsulas (for example...

and the southwestern part of Burma lie along the highly oblique convergent boundary between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate. The degree to which...

the transform boundary marked by the Alpine Fault. South of New Zealand the boundary becomes a transitional transform-convergent boundary, the Macquarie...

frequent and often cause damage. The earthquakes occur due to a convergent boundary between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. "M 5.5 - 10 km ENE...

by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes resulting from divergent tectonic activity are usually non-explosive whereas those resulting from convergent tectonic...

transform boundary forms the northern border with the Pacific plate. Along the border with the Philippine Sea plate is a convergent boundary that transitions...

northwest. A transform boundary exists between the Bird's Head and the Molucca Sea Collision Zone to the southwest. Another convergent boundary exists between...

Allochthon Autochthon Back-arc basin Continental collision Convergent boundary Décollement Divergent boundary Extensional tectonics Fault block Fenster Fold and...

forms the boundary between the Indian subcontinent and the Indochinese peninsula. This geological feature sits at the convergent boundary of the Indian...

Illinois, United States Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc system, a plate tectonic convergent boundary in the Pacific Ocean Invisible Black Matter, a fictional substance...

arcs at convergent plate boundaries while basaltic magmatism is found at mid-ocean ridges during sea-floor spreading at divergent plate boundaries. On Earth...

is being shortened such as at a convergent boundary. Reverse faults, particularly those along convergent boundaries, are associated with the most powerful...

magmas. It has also been suggested that some granites found at convergent boundaries between tectonic plates, where oceanic crust subducts below continental...

the Anatolian plate horizontally. To the south and southwest is a convergent boundary with the African plate. This convergence manifests in compressive...