enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Convergent boundary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_boundary

    Simplified diagram of a convergent boundary. 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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plate...

    Convergent boundaries are areas where plates move toward each other and collide. These are also known as compressional or destructive boundaries. Obduction zones occurs when the continental plate is pushed under the oceanic plate, but this is unusual as the relative densities of the tectonic plates favours subduction of the oceanic plate. This ...

  4. File:Continental-continental destructive plate boundary.svg

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Continental...

    You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

  5. Plate tectonics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics

    Convergent boundary. Convergent boundaries (destructive boundaries or active margins) occur where two plates slide toward each other to form either a subduction zone (one plate moving underneath the other) or a continental collision.

  6. Continental collision - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_collision

    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.

  7. Megathrust earthquake - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megathrust_earthquake

    Diagram of a subduction zone. The megathrust fault lies on the top of the subducting slab where it is in contact with the overriding plate. The term megathrust refers to an extremely large thrust fault, typically formed at the plate interface along a subduction zone, such as the Sunda megathrust.

  8. Island arc - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_arc

    Island arcs are long chains of active volcanoes with intense seismic activity found along convergent tectonic plate boundaries. Most island arcs originate on oceanic crust and have resulted from the descent of the lithosphere into the mantle along the subduction zone.

  9. Thrust tectonics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust_tectonics

    The most significant areas of thrust tectonics are associated with destructive plate boundaries leading to the formation of orogenic belts. The two main types are: the collision of two continental tectonic plates (for example the Arabian plate and Eurasian plate , which formed the Zagros fold and thrust belt ) and collisions between a continent ...