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Eugeosynclines often contain flysch typical of a continental-continentalconvergentboundary.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Reverse faults occur in areas where the crust is being shortened such as at aconvergentboundary.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This rifting or seafloor spreading causes plate movement that results in a nearbyconvergentboundarywhich then forms the mountain range.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As the tectonic plates migrate across the planet, the ocean floor is subducted under the leading edges of the plates at convergent boundaries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They occur almost exclusively at oceanic-continental convergent boundaries in association with subducted oceanic lithosphere.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most of its borders are convergent boundaries including a subduction zone to the west.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The oceanic lithosphere subducts at what are known as convergent boundaries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Convergent boundaries create foreland basins through tectonic compression of oceanic and continental crust during lithospheric flexure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These structural regimes broadly relate to convergent boundaries, divergent boundaries, and transform boundaries, respectively, between tectonic plates.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The northern and western borders are a divergent boundary while the rest of the borders are transform and convergent boundaries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As a result of pressure, friction, and plate material melting in the mantle, earthquakes and volcanoes are common near convergent boundaries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is primarily surrounded by convergent boundaries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All of these are ways the crust can deform is due to the different types of plate margins, which are: divergent boundaries, convergent boundaries, and transform boundaries.
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