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  2. Convergent boundary - Wikipedia

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    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 beneath the other, a process known as subduction .

  3. List of tectonic plate interactions - Wikipedia

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    Three types of plate boundary Convergent boundary Divergent boundary Transform boundary. Tectonic plate interactions are classified into three basic types: [1] Convergent boundaries are areas where plates move toward each other and collide. These are also known as compressional or destructive boundaries.

  4. Plate tectonics - Wikipedia

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    Divergent boundaries (constructive boundaries or extensional boundaries). These are where two plates slide apart from each other. At zones of ocean-to-ocean rifting, divergent boundaries form by seafloor spreading, allowing for the formation of new ocean basin, e.g. the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and East Pacific Rise. As the ocean plate splits, the ...

  5. Ring of Fire - Wikipedia

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    About 90% of the world's earthquakes, [5] including most of its largest, [6] [7] occur within the belt. The Ring of Fire is not a single geological structure. It was created by the subduction of different tectonic plates at convergent boundaries around the Pacific Ocean.

  6. Outline of plate tectonics - Wikipedia

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    Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining to building') is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.

  7. Tectonics - Wikipedia

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    Convergent and transform boundaries are responsible for most of the world's major (M w > 7) earthquakes. Convergent and divergent boundaries are also the site of most of the world's volcanoes, such as around the Pacific Ring of Fire. Most of the deformation in the lithosphere is related to the interaction between plates at or near plate boundaries.

  8. Continental collision - Wikipedia

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    Cartoon of a tectonic collision between two continents. In geology, continental collision is a phenomenon of plate tectonics that occurs at convergent boundaries.Continental collision is a variation on the fundamental process of subduction, whereby the subduction zone is destroyed, mountains produced, and two continents sutured together.

  9. Anatolian sub-plate - Wikipedia

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    According to the American Museum of Natural History, the Anatolian transform fault system is "probably the most active in the world". [6] The East Anatolian Fault, a left lateral transform fault, forms a boundary with the Arabian plate. [7] To the south and southwest is a convergent boundary with the African plate.