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| what is the three different types of plate boundaries? |
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| divergent, convergent, transform, or parallel slip, boundaries. |
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Divergent boundaries
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-occur where plates are spreading apart.
-Young divergence is characterized by thin or thinning crust and rift valleys.
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Convergent boundaries
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-occur where plates are moving toward each other.
-material that is dense enough, may sink back into the mantle and produce a deep ocean trench. |
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| -comes into existence where two plates move laterally by each other, parallel to the boundary. |
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| -is the process that takes place atconvergent boundaries by which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate. |
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