"Call me a crank on the subject, but I'll never live on an active plate margin."
This is known as a compressional plate margin.
The Andes are an example of a mountain range formed at a destructive plate margin.
The drilling is at a rifted plate margin on the mid-oceanic ridge.
As the plates move, the crust deforms dominantly along the plate margins.
If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins.
The main types of convergent plate margin and their possible modes of development are summarized in Table 3.1.
The most important of these variables is probably the heating of the plate margin since this will affect its thickness and strength.
There are three types of plate margin, two of which we have already come across.
Seconds, they can be triggered by tectonic activity associated with plate margins and fault.
