Types of Convergent

Plate Boundaries

Transform Fault
Boundary
Three Types of Convergent
Plate Boundaries

Oceanic-Oceanic lithospheric plates

Oceanic Continental lithospheric
plates

Continental Continental lithospheric

plates
 Continental - Continental

The first type of convergent boundary is

Continental-Continental Convergence. This
type of boundary happens where two
continental plates collide and push up
creating mountain ranges. Like colliding
icebergs resist downward motion, the same
thing happens with colliding continental
plates, instead of moving down, they move
up.
Oceanic -
Oceanic
The next type is Oceanic-
Oceanic Convergence. This type
of convergent boundary
happens where two oceanic
plates push against one
another, causing the colder,
denser, older plate to buckle up
and sink into the mantle. Hot
magma comes from where the
plate sank, creating new crust.
Oceanic - Continental

The last type of convergent

boundary is Oceanic-Continental
Convergence. This type of
convergent boundary happens
where an oceanic plate and a
continental plate push together
causing the oceanic plate to be
forced under the continental
plate into the mantle because
the oceanic plate is thinner.
This is called a subduction.
When the oceanic plate is
pushed under, it melts and
turns into hot magma which
burns its way through the
 TRANSFORM FAULT
BOUNDARY
Places where plates slide past each
other are called transform
boundaries. Since the plates on
either side of a transform boundary
are merely sliding past each other
and not tearing or crunching each
other, transform boundaries lack
the spectacular features found at
convergent and divergent
boundaries. Instead, transform
boundaries are marked in some
places by linear valleys along the
boundary where rock has been
ground up by the sliding. In other
places, transform boundaries are
marked by features like stream