EARTH SCIENCE
TECTONICS
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Only volcanoes
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Only earthquakes
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A rift valley and volcanoes
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Mountains and earthquakes
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Detailed explanation-1: -A subduction zone is the biggest crash scene on Earth. These boundaries mark the collision between two tectonic plates. When two tectonic plates meet at a subduction zone, one bends and slides underneath the other, curving down into the mantle, the hotter layer under the crust.
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: -Convergent (Colliding): This occurs when plates move towards each other and collide. When a continental plate meets an oceanic plate, the thinner, denser, and more flexible oceanic plate sinks beneath the thicker, more rigid continental plate. This is called subduction.
Detailed explanation-4: -The plate boundary between the Eurasian Plate and Indian Plate is a convergent boundary.
Detailed explanation-5: -Indian subcontinent …the northwestern portion of the Indian-Australian Plate, began to drift slowly northward toward the much larger Eurasian Plate several hundred million years ago (after the former broke away from the ancient southern-hemispheric supercontinent known as Gondwana, or Gondwanaland).