GEOLOGY

EARTH SCIENCE

TECTONICS

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In some places on Earth, large tectonic plates are moving toward each other and collide with great force. One such place is where the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate meet. What would you expect to occur where these two tectonic plates collide?
A
Only volcanoes
B
Only earthquakes
C
A rift valley and volcanoes
D
Mountains and earthquakes
Explanation: 

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).

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