The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth. Deep below the Earth ...

Also known as subduction boundary, a convergent boundary occurs where one plate slides under another as the two are pushed together. If there is land at the edge of one of these plates ...

This is a convergent boundary. Scientists have wondered for many decades whether the plates are being passively moved around by the mantle, or are the active drivers of movement themselves ...

The highest mountain ranges on Earth - such as the Himalayas or the Andes - arise along convergent plate boundaries. At such plate boundaries two tectonic plates move toward each other ...

Seismologists blame Chile’s serpentine, 4,000-mile Pacific border, which runs directly astride the convergent boundary of the Nazca and South American plates. How did Chile get to be so long and ...

New Zealand has volcanoes because it sits on a convergent continental plate boundary The North Island's Taupo Volcanic Zone is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world NZ has three ...