collision zone

American  

[kuh-lizh-uhn zohn] / kəˈlɪʒ ən ˌzoʊn /

noun

1. Geology. an area where two continental plates collide, causing the earth's crust to buckle and fold, bringing forth such geologic activity as earthquakes and the formation of mountain ranges.

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collision zone Scientific  

/ kə-lĭzh′ən /

1. See convergent plate boundary

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Example Sentences

Does the entropy during the quark and gluon dominated phase of a proton collision differ from the entropy of the hadrons that later escape the collision zone?

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

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 • Feb. 17, 2021

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

From Science Magazine • Apr. 26, 2018