faults model
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Folded mountains from space
Formed by continental crust converging with continental crust
Folded mountains – notice the rock layers
Indian plate (continental crust) running into Eurasian plate (continental crust)
Indian plate
Eurasian plate
South American plate (continental crust) running into Nazca plate (oceanic crust)
View from space
Volcanoes form where a convergent boundary occurs between oceanic crust and continental crust.
Volcanoes also form where a convergent boundary occurs between oceanic crust and oceanic crust.
Aleutian islands of Alaska are volcanoes formed by oceanic crust converging with oceanic crust
Following volcanic islands in the Pacific Ocean can show us where oceanic crust is being subducted by oceanic crust.
Oceanic crust diverging from oceanic crust
African rift valley
Iceland’s rift valley
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