What happens at convergent plate boundaries?
Plates move together at convergent plate boundaries and lithosphere is destroyed. There is a compressional stress on the undeformed rocks which causes the crust to shorten. Reverse faults (the hanging wall moves up) occur at convergent plate boundaries. Different types of convergent plate boundaries include: oceanic-oceanic, oceanic-continental, continental-continental. In oceanic-oceanic an oceanic trench forms because the oceanic crusts subducts. The oceanic crust, because of its higher density, also subducts in oceanic-continental convergent plate boundaries, which are the most common. In the last case, continental-continental- two continents collide. This occurrence explains the creation of the Himalayas- India and Asia collided.
