About 350 million years ago, the Antler orogeny
(see link below) began to deform the Paleozoic rocks of Nevada's Great Basin and western Utah to lay down the basis of what would become The Rockies. For 270 million years, the Antler volcanic island arc terrane collided with the western coastal area of the North American plate, near what is today's border area of Nevada and Utah.
The current Rockies came up between 80 and 55 million years ago during what is called the Laramide orogeny
(see other link below), with the growth of the southern part of the Rockies believed to have been caused by the subduction of the Farallon plate taking a shallowly-angled dive beneath the North American plate.
subduction zone or continental plate
The kind of plate boundary that moves apart is a Divergent Plate Boundary
A convergent plate boundary forms a deep sea trench. This occurs when two tectonic plates are pushed towards each other, causing one to subduct beneath the other, creating a trench in the ocean floor.
Klyuchevskaya Sopka is on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia and is located near the boundary of the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate. This boundary is a convergent boundary, specifically a subduction zone where the Pacific Plate is being subducted beneath the North American Plate.
The landforms that are formed at a transform boundary forms features such as fault lines and oceanic fracture zones. Fault lines are also known as strike slip faults. They produce powerful earthquakes.
The plate boundary that causes mountains to form is called a convergent boundary.
The Transform plate boundary commonly forms a chain of volcanoes - Professer Humifiken
When two edges of tectonic plates collide (convergent boundary) they can cause a crumpling effect and an upthrust to form mountains. The Himalayas, for instance, were formed when the Indian Plate crashed into the Asian Plate. Convergent boundary also applies to the situation where one plate moves under the other (subduction) this kind of plate boundary can also form mountain chains. An example of this is the Andes mountains.
Divergent Plate Boundary. (Seafloor Spreading).
convergent boundary.
subduction zone or continental plate
a plate -.-
The kind of plate boundary that moves apart is a Divergent Plate Boundary
The 'South Island'. A collision boundary.
The Phillipine and Pacific plate boundarys are Convergant.A destructive plate boundary.
divergent
A convergent plate boundary forms a deep sea trench. This occurs when two tectonic plates are pushed towards each other, causing one to subduct beneath the other, creating a trench in the ocean floor.