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

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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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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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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This area is not at a divergent or convergent boundary, and there is no evidence of an underlying mantle plume.

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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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