convergent boundary
Americannoun
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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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This convergent boundary has a trench and mantle wedge and frequently, a volcanic arc.
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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-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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At an ocean-ocean convergent boundary, oceanic crust is being subducted beneath another oceanic-crust plate.
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