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Convergent Plate

Boundary
GROUP 2 PRESENTATION
01
details,
backgrounds, and
history
About the Convergent Plate Boundaries

What are convergent plate boundaries?


- When two plates come together, it is known as a convergent boundary. The impact of the colliding
plates can cause the edges of one or both plates to buckle up into a mountain ranges or one of the
plates may bend down into a deep seafloor trench.

Who discovered convergent boundaries?


- Tuzo Wilson, who proposed that these large faults or fracture zones connect two spreading centers
(divergent plate boundaries) or, less commonly, trenches (convergent plate boundaries)
What does a convergent boundary form?
• Typically, a convergent plate boundary—such as the one between the
Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate—forms towering mountain ranges,
like the Himalaya, as Earth's crust is crumpled and pushed upward. In
some cases, however, a convergent plate boundary can result in one
tectonic plate diving underneath another.

• Deep ocean trenches, volcanoes, island arcs, submarine mountain ranges,


and fault lines are examples of features that can form along plate tectonic
boundaries. Volcanoes are one kind of feature that forms along
convergent plate boundaries, where two tectonic plates collide and one
moves beneath the other.
02 process
Types of Convergent Boundaries
• Ocean-Ocean Convergent Boundary
- One of the plates (oceanic crust and lithospheric mantle) is pushed, or subducted, under the other. Often
it is the older and colder plate that is denser and subducts beneath the younger and warmer plate.

• Oceanic-Continental
- When oceanic crust converges with continental crust, the denser oceanic plate plunges beneath the
continental plate. This process, called subduction, occurs at the oceanic trenches. The entire region is
known as a subduction zone. Subduction zones have a lot of intense earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

• Continental-Continental
- 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.
What landforms are created at plate boundaries?
FOLD
- MOUNTAINS
Fold mountains are created where two or more of Earth's tectonic
plates are pushed together. At these colliding, compressing
boundaries, rocks and debris are warped and folded into rocky
outcrops, hills, mountains, and entire mountain ranges. Fold
mountains are created through a process called orogeny.
What landforms are created at plate boundaries?

OCEAN TRENCHES
- Ocean trenches are a characteristic of convergent plate
borders, which occur when two or more tectonic plates
collide. Dense lithosphere melts or slides beneath less
dense lithosphere at numerous convergent plate borders,
forming a trench. Deep-sea trenches are found along the
continental edges, often seaward of and parallel to
nearby island arcs or mountain ranges. They're linked to
and found in subduction zones, which are places where a
lithospheric plate holding oceanic crust slides down into
the upper mantle due to gravity.
What landforms are created at plate boundaries?

ISLAND ARCS
- Islands are formed in a variety of ways. Volcanoes would
keep erupting causing land to start to form under water. This
land would keep on rising up as the volcano erupted. Over
thousands of years, the land would go above the water, thus
creating land that is surrounded by water or another word, an
island. Islands can also be formed when continental plates
collide. When they collide they push land up creating an
underwater mountain that goes above land.
What landforms are created at plate boundaries?

VOLCANOES
- Volcanoes form on land when one tectonic plate
slides beneath another. A thin, heavy oceanic plate
usually subducts beneath a larger continental plate.
The ocean plate descends into the mantle as a result
of this.
Formation
03 examples
examples

Deep ocean trenches, volcanoes, island arcs, submarine mountain


ranges, and fault lines are examples of features that can form along
plate tectonic boundaries.
examples

The Himalayas Mt. Fuji The Aleutian


Mountains One plate comprised of oceanic Islands
Mountains were formed when crust and another built of This satellite image from the
two plates of the continental crust continental crust are pressing Aleutian chain shows an erupting
collided and pressed together against each other volcano capped by snow or ice
and surrounded by seas.
The collision between the Eurasian Plate and the Subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American
Indian Plate that is forming the Himalayas. Plate to form the Andes.
Collision of the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate Subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Mariana
formed the Pontic Mountains in Turkey. Plate formed the Mariana Trench.
Subduction of the northern part of the Pacific
Subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate beneath the
Plate and the NW North American Plate that
North American Plate to form the Cascade Range.
is forming the Aleutian Islands.
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