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.

I. Rift Valley When a diverging boundary begins to open, it creates a narrow valley bounded by normal faults. As well as the basalt that is erupted into the valley and injected into the rocks below to ...

News & Views Published: September 2009 Geophysics A plate boundary in flux Martyn Unsworth Nature Geoscience 2, 605–606 (2009) Cite this article ...