convergent margin
convergent margin A boundary between two lithospheric plates which are moving towards each other. Some such boundaries involve subduction of oceanic crust and are called ‘destructive’ boundaries; others are collision zones between continents where it is thought that all the oceanic crust has been subducted and that the ocean basin has reached the final stage of the Wilson cycle.
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