GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fold Mountains: The compress forces stemming from a convergent plate boundary, where two plates collide with one another, can create fold mountains. Mountains 100 million years old or less, such as the Himalayas, are known as young fold mountains and account for the planet’s highest, most impressive ranges.

Detailed explanation-2: -Volcanoes are one kind of feature that forms along convergent plate boundaries, where two tectonic plates collide and one moves beneath the other.

Detailed explanation-3: -Convergent boundaries, where two plates are moving toward each other, are of three types, depending on the type of crust present on either side of the boundary-oceanic or continental . The types are ocean-ocean, ocean-continent, and continent-continent.

Detailed explanation-4: -Examples. The collision between the Eurasian Plate and the Indian Plate that is forming the Himalayas. Subduction of the northern part of the Pacific Plate and the NW North American Plate that is forming the Aleutian Islands. Subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate to form the Andes.

Detailed explanation-5: -At convergent plate boundaries, oceanic crust is often forced down into the mantle where it begins to melt. Magma rises into and through the other plate, solidifying into granite, the rock that makes up the continents. Thus, at convergent boundaries, continental crust is created and oceanic crust is destroyed.