Geography Revision
Revision materials to support you in preparing for your GCSE Geography exams.
Revision materials to support you in preparing for your GCSE Geography exams.
Destructive or convergent plate margins form when two tectonic plates collide.
Where oceanic and continental crust collide, the denser, heavier oceanic crust subducts the continental crust.
Where two oceanic crusts collide, the older, colder and denser oceanic crust subducts the younger crust.
When two continental tectonic plates converge, they cannot submerge into the mantle due to their composition. This lack of subduction leads to the plates crumpling upwards, forming fold mountains like the Himalayas.
The distribution of volcanoes and earthquakes
Constructive plate margins
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