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

Maybe the most significant tectonic feature that occurred in the Cenozoic of North America was the conversion of the west coast of California from a convergent boundary subduction zone to a transform boundary.

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

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At an ocean-continent convergent boundary, part of a plate that is made up of oceanic crust is subducting beneath part of another plate made up of continental crust.

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Figure 11.12 Schematic diagram of the India-Asia convergent boundary, showing examples of the types of faults along which earthquakes are focussed.

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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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