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A convergent boundary of two plates will push together. If it is two continental crusts, then they will both push upward, forming mountains. If it is a continental crust pushing against an oceanic crust, then the oceanic crust will go underneath, melt, and be recycled because the oceanic crust is less dense than the continental crust.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 8y agoWhen plates move towards each other they collide. When a continental plate collides with another the edges of the plate crush into each other, and then folding takes place.
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∙ 11y agoA plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
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∙ 12y agothey move towards each other (:
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What type of plate movement is happening at the edge of the Pacific and North American Plate?
Convergent Plate Movement.
What type of plate boundary does compression occur?
Converging Plate Boundaries
Which part happens at a convergent plate boundary?
Mountains form, volcanoes can form/erupt, earthquakes can occur. That's all I know sorry.
Where does regional metamorphism most commonly occur?
at convergent plate boundries
Can plate movement occur when a plate is pushed away from an ocean trench during a process called ridge push?
A convergent boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate results in a ocean trench because the basalt in the oceanic plate is denser than the granite in the continental plate, causing the oceanic plate to sink underneath, into the mantle.
How do earthquakes occur on convergent boundaries?
Earthquakes occur on convergent boundaries because as the plates bump together, the ground becomes unstable. This process of plate movement also causes the formation of mountains.
What type of plate movement is happening at the edge of the Pacific and North American Plate?
Convergent Plate Movement.
What type of plate boundary does compression occur?
Converging Plate Boundaries
Evidence of plate movement occurs at plate?
Plate boundaries
Mountains are created by what type of plate movement?
convergent plates
Which part happens at a convergent plate boundary?
Mountains form, volcanoes can form/erupt, earthquakes can occur. That's all I know sorry.
What caused the 2004 indoneisan tsunami - a divergent convergent or transform plate movement?
It was a thrust fault, a covergent plate movement.
Is the subduction zone a plate boundary?
Yes. They occur at convergent plate boundaries (especially oceanic-continental and occasionally at oceanic-oceanic convergent boundaries).
Is an earthquakes a convergent or transform?
Earthquakes occur at all plate boundaries.
On which type of plate boundary do island arcs occur?
convergent boundaries
Where does regional metamorphism most commonly occur?
at convergent plate boundries
Three type of plate boundaries where volcanic eruptions can occur?
Convergent, divergent, and, although not a plate boundary, they also occur from hotspots.
