An animation of the Plate Tectonics process of Convergent boundaries, also called Orogeny, that form certain mountains chains. Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and ...

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges.

In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a team of Chinese scientists present the tectonic generalization of structures, processes and products at convergent plate margins during ...

Plate tectonics is a model that explains why most (but not all) earthquake epicenters are concentrated in narrow bands on the earth’s surface. It’s all about how the planet is cooling down.

The tectono-magmatic relationships along obliquely convergent plate boundaries, where strain partitioning promotes strike-slip structures along the volcanic arc, are poorly known. Here it is unclear ...

Sometimes, when they meet each other head on, one plate starts moving upwards to form mountains, while the other is pushed downwards where it melts. This is a convergent boundary.

Learn how the layers of the Earth are structured, and the theory of plate tectonics in this guide for KS3 geography students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

The Atlantic Ocean is currently getting wider at the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a divergent plate boundary that pushes the Old and New Worlds apart at a rate of around 2.5cm per year.

Silica clathrate minerals store hydrocarbons, which have vanished from sedimentary rocks, and therefore, they provide new evidence about geological carbon cycles at convergent plate boundaries.