In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at ...

Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent ... takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries, where new crust is formed; convergent boundaries, where ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a ... years from now eastern Africa will split from the continent to form a new landmass. A mid-ocean ridge would then mark the boundary between ...

This is called a destructive or convergent plate boundary. When the plates collide, the denser plate, usually the oceanic one, is forced underneath the continental plate. The force of this ...