But converging plates don't always collide upward ... such as the "Ring of Fire" that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. When two oceanic plates converge, a deep trench forms, such as the Mariana ...

The Farallon oceanic plate was once nestled between the Pacific and North American plates, which were converging around 200 million years ago at what would become the San Andreas fault along the ...

Convergent: Where plates smash together, resulting in deformation or destruction of one or more plate edges. When one plate sinks below another, forcing it back down to Meltytown, it’s called ...

Two tectonic plates smash together like an extremely slow-motion car accident, with a crumple zone in the middle. Or in another flavor of convergence, an oceanic plate is subducted beneath its ...

and convergent boundaries, like the Himalayas, where two plates collide and recycle crust. However, recent findings like this necessitate a new framework for understanding oceanic transform faults.

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 ...

A tectonic plate that disappeared under North America millions of years ago still peeks out in central California and Mexico, new research finds. The Farallon oceanic plate was once nestled ...

"The Philippines is located at a complex junction of different plate systems,” Van de Lagemaat explained. “The region almost entirely consists of oceanic crust, but some pieces are raised ...

This is called a destructive or convergent plate boundary. When the plates collide, the denser plate, usually the oceanic one, is forced underneath the continental plate. The force of this ...