Destructive plate margin
DESTRUCTIVE PLATE MARGIN
Destructive Plate Boundaries – (aka Convergent or Compressional)
Destructive Plate Boundary Image Credit: BBC
Constructive plate boundaries cause mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes and
the material is about destructive plate margins, so subduction zones and
Usually found at a destructive plate margin stratovolcanoes erupt
Plate Tectonics - Plate Tectonics
The three principal types of plate margins
crust) converging, resulting in the subduction of the oceanic plate
Dipping seismic zones, called Benioff zone, are common to convergent plate
plate margin
ocean-ocean (island-arc) subduction - Plate Tectonics - OpenLearn - The Open
at a destructive plate boundary where one plate plunges below another.
The point where two or more plates meet is known as a plate boundary.
at all four of the major plate boundaries (constructive, destructive,
Kobe is on a minor fault which lies above a destructive plate margin.
2.4 Destructive plate boundaries, continued: ocean-ocean (island-arc)
2.5 Conservative plate boundaries and transform faults - Plate Tectonics
destructive plate boundaries come together and fight over each other.
