Four types of plate tectonic activity are demonstrated in this feature. Keep an eye on the map ... boundary, go to The Sea Floor Spread. Also known as subduction boundary, a convergent boundary ...

This is called a destructive or convergent plate boundary. When the plates collide ... the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very ...

If you look at a map of every earthquake in the past ... that the largest earthquakes are typically associated with convergent plate boundaries like the Himalayas. Whereas earthquakes along ...

New crust is continually being pushed away from divergent boundaries (where sea-floor spreading occurs), increasing Earth's surface. But the Earth isn't getting any bigger. What happens, then, to ...

Sometimes, when they meet each other head on, one plate starts moving upwards to form mountains, while the other is pushed downwards where it melts. This is a convergent boundary. Scientists have ...

Subduction zones, convergent boundaries where one tectonic plate ... identify what might be cryolavas on the overriding plate. Their location adjacent to the subsumption band suggests they are ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges. In addition ...