GEOLOGY

EARTH SCIENCE

TECTONICS

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Boundary between two colliding plates, often associated with mountain building, ocean trenches and volcanic islands
A
plate boundary
B
magma
C
divergent boundary
D
convergent boundary
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Convergent Plate BoundariesAt a convergent plate boundary, tectonic plates move toward one another and collide. Oftentimes, this collision forces the denser plate edge to subduct, or sink beneath the plate edge that is less dense. These subduction zones can create deep trenches.

Detailed explanation-2: -If two tectonic plates collide, they form a convergent plate boundary. Usually, one of the converging plates will move beneath the other, a process known as subduction. Deep trenches are features often formed where tectonic plates are being subducted and earthquakes are common at subduction zones as well.

Detailed explanation-3: -Oceanic-oceanic convergence As with oceanic-continental convergence, when two oceanic plates converge, one is usually subducted under the other, and in the process a trench is formed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Destructive, or convergent, plate boundaries are where the tectonic plates are moving towards each other. Volcanoes form here in two settings where either oceanic plate descends below another oceanic plate or an oceanic plate descends below a continental plate.

Detailed explanation-5: -The process of mountain building involved with such chains involves a convergent boundary between two plates. One of the most dramatic ranges on the Earth is the Himalayan range.

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