When two plates collide with enough force, faulting occurs, breaking the crust.
Faulting (Apex)
When two plates collide with enough force, faulting occurs, breaking the crust. Faulting (Apex)
subduction
When two tectonic plates collide, it is called compressional stress at convergent boundaries. Rocks and plates usually have stronger compressional strength than tensional strength (which would happen at divergent boundaries). This means the higher the likelihood of developing mountains for continent-continent convergence or being subducted for oceanic-oceanic/oceanic-continental boundaries.
Mountains, get pushed up when two plates collide.
The Eurasian and Pacific plates collide into the Indian and Australian plates, also known as Indo-Australian plate.
When two plates collide with enough force, faulting occurs, breaking the crust. Faulting (Apex)
When two plates collide with enough force, faulting occurs, breaking the crust. Faulting (Apex)
subduction
Where two plates collide
a fold mountain occurs
they hug each other
when two oceanic plates collide they create a deep-ocean trench, at deep-ocean trenches subduction occurs.
continental plates meeting form fault lines
They are called rift volcanoes.
Earthquakes are caused when this happens.
When two tectonic plates collide, it is called compressional stress at convergent boundaries. Rocks and plates usually have stronger compressional strength than tensional strength (which would happen at divergent boundaries). This means the higher the likelihood of developing mountains for continent-continent convergence or being subducted for oceanic-oceanic/oceanic-continental boundaries.
It is called subduction. When subduction occurs one plate slips beneath the other and sinks into the Earth's mantle and creates a trench.