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convergent plates are where plates serving landmasses collide, the crust crumbles and buckles into mountain ranges. India and Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the himalayas. Mount everest is the tallest point on earth. These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. as the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges. In ocean-ocean convergences, one plate usually dives beneath the other, the other forming deep trenches. These collisions also lead to underwater volcanoes that eventually build up into arcs like the one(s) in japan. The Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean is the deepest point on earth. A great example of the convergent boundaries is the Philippine plate. The volcanoes of the philippines are probably the deadliest volcanoes in the world.O
 * __Convergent Boundaries__

**Divergent Boundaries At divergent boundries in the oceans, magma from deep in the earth's mantle rises toward the surface and pushes apart two or more plates. This forms volcanoes and mountains. The best known divergent boundary is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic ocean. The great rift valley was formed African plate and the Bolami plate moving away from each other.The Arabian plate helped form the red sea by moving away from the Eurasian plate.

Transform boundaries grind past each other along what are called strike faults. The San Andres fault located in California causes earthquakes. Another plate that does this is the scotia plate. This plate has a pure strike-slip earthquake that will do a lot of damage. One more example is the caribean plate. This plate an the south american plate form the Caymen trench.
 * __Transform Boundaries__**