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Definitions for "CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY"
Keywords:  subduction, collide, crustal, lithospheric, boundary
Related Terms: Divergent plate boundary, Subduction zone, Plate boundary, Convergent boundary, Subduction, Benioff zone, Divergent boundary, Tectonic plate, Transform boundary, Rifting, Tectonic plates, Passive margin, Plate, Plate tectonics, Seafloor spreading, Suture, Transform fault, Rift, Spreading center, Plates, Moho , Mid-ocean ridge, Mohorovicic discontinuity, Continental drift, Triple junction, Sea-floor spreading, Terrane, Oceanic trench, Oceanic ridge, Continental crust, Island arc, Volcanic arc, Seismic gap, Tectonic, Oceanic crust, Rift valley, Uplift, Seismologist, Orogeny, Asthenosphere, Seismicity, Relief, Tectonics, Rift zone, Nappe, Epicenter, Transgression, Isostasy, Seismic moment, Hotspot
A boundary at which Earth's plates collide and area is lost either by shortening and crustal thickening or by subduction of one plate beneath the other. The site of volcanism, earthquakes, trenches, and mountain building. (See also Subduction zone.)
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A plate boundary where two lithospheric plates collide head-on. Convergent plate boundaries are sites of considerable geologic activity and are characterized by volcanism, earthquakes, and crustal deformation. See also: subduction zone.
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Area where earth's lithospheric plates are pushed together. See subduction zone. Compare divergent plate boundary, transform fault.
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