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. A chain of volcanoes often forms parallel to convergent plate boundaries and powerful earthquakes are common along these boundaries. The Pacific Ring of Fire is an example of a convergent plate boundary. At convergent plate boundaries, oceanic crust is often forced down into the mantle where it begins to melt.
Magma rises into and through the other plate, solidifying into granite, the rock that makes up the continents. What Is The Moho? The East Africa Rift System.
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What Are Transforming Boundaries? Three Types of Convergent Boundaries. Type of Rock Found in Divergent Boundaries. Landforms Caused by Plate Tectonics. Ancient Fault Lines in Pennsylvania. Also called lithospheric plate. Also called a transform fault. Also called a conservative plate boundary. The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit.
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