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convergent boundary

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

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

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The background seismicity at this convergent boundary, and on other similar ones, is predominantly near the upper side of the subducting plate.

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