collision zone

Scientific  

/ kə-lĭzh′ən /

1. See convergent plate boundary

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Example Sentences

Home, which has always been someone’s workplace but is now, for more people than ever before, a collision zone for many kinds of work.

From New York Times

Before venturing here, Montes had limited his fieldwork in this geological collision zone to Panama, where telltale rocks are also uncovered.

From Science Magazine

Zealand straddles the collision zone between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates.

From Science Magazine

Taiwan sits in a collision zone between the Philippine Sea and Eurasian plates, and, like California, is in a highly seismic area.

From Los Angeles Times

"At my best, I live in that split second of time and space at the breakdown, a collision zone where 100kg-plus bodies are charging from diverse points of the compass towards a small ovoid focus. Success or failure can be measured in microseconds," as McCaw put it in his autobiography 'The Open Side'.

From BBC