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Convergent Plate Boundaries. When two plates converge, what happens depends on the types of lithosphere that meet. We explored what happens when oceanic crust meets continental crust. Another type of convergent plate boundary is found where two oceanic plates meet.
- 2.5: Types of Plate Boundaries
There are essentially three types of plate boundaries, which...
- 4.6: Convergent Plate Boundaries
Convergent boundaries, where two plates are moving toward...
- 2.5: Types of Plate Boundaries
Learn how oceanic and continental plates collide and produce earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains. Explore examples of convergent boundaries with interactive maps and satellite images.
Learn about the three types of convergent plate boundaries: ocean-ocean, ocean-continent, and continent-continent. See how subduction, magma, and deformation create features such as trenches, volcanoes, and mountains.
Mar 18, 2020 · A convergent plate boundary is a location where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other, often causing one plate to slide below the other (in a process known as subduction). The collision of tectonic plates can result in earthquakes, volcanoes, the formation of mountains, and other geological events.
There are essentially three types of plate boundaries, which are divergent, convergent, and transform. In the case of divergent plate boundaries, two of earth’s plates move away from each other. Spreading centers and areas where new ocean floor are generally located at divergent plate boundaries.
Convergent boundaries, where two plates are moving toward each other, are of three types, depending on the type of crust present on either side of the boundary — oceanic or continental. The types are ocean-ocean, ocean-continent, and continent-continent.
Oceanic – oceanic convergence. In collisions between two oceanic plates, the cooler, denser oceanic lithosphere sinks beneath the warmer, less dense oceanic lithosphere. As the slab sinks deeper into the mantle, it releases water from dehydration of hydrous minerals in the oceanic crust.
