convergent boundary

American  

noun

Geology.

1. a major geologic discontinuity or suture marking the juncture of lithospheric plates that have been joined by plate tectonics.

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Example Sentences

Unlike subduction-zone earthquakes, which tend to be located along a narrow swath near the convergent boundary, collision-zone earthquakes may occur hundreds of kilometers from the boundary between the plates.

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At an ocean-ocean convergent boundary, oceanic crust is being subducted beneath another oceanic-crust plate.

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This area is not at a divergent or convergent boundary, and there is no evidence of an underlying mantle plume.

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At an ocean-continent convergent boundary, the oceanic plate is pushed under the continental plate in the same manner as at an ocean-ocean boundary.

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One interpretation is that the TMZ formed along a convergent boundary, although this is not universally accepted.

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