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Geography - GCSE Edexcel

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What and where are convergent (destructive) plate boundaries?

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These are margins where two plates move towards each other. The oceanic plate meets the continental plate and is forced down into the mantle, and destroyed. The sub-ducted plate melts and rises abruptly as magma. They form destructive earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, an example is the Nazca plate being sub-ducted beneath the less dense South American plate.


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