It was on a normal fault, involving extension instead of compression. Zooming into a geologic map, the major plate boundary is no longer a straight line and many other adjacent fault systems appear.

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.

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 ...

News & Views Published: 07 September 2014 Planetary science Plate tectonics on ice Michelle M. Selvans Nature Geoscience 7, 695–696 (2014) Cite this article ...

Volcanism on Earth is known to occur in three tectonic settings: divergent plate boundaries (such as mid-ocean ridges), convergent plate boundaries (such as island arcs), and hot spots. We report ...

Porphyry copper deposits, an important subclass of Cordilleran-type deposits, exhibit a remarkable spatial relationship to present or former convergent plate boundary regimes. Certain copper-nickel ...