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what happens at what plate bounderys

At a destructive boundary the plates are moving towards each other. This tends to involve a continental plate (a plate carrying land) and an oceanic plate (a plate carrying ocean).

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At divergent plate boundaries, tectonic plates move away from each other, creating new crust; at convergent boundaries, they move towards each other, leading to subduction, mountain formation, or earthquakes; and at transform boundaries, plates slide past each other horizontally, causing earthquakes.

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