The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

subduction zones may themselves be transformed to other types of plate boundary. For example, when India collided with Asia, an active subduction zone was transformed into a collision that formed ...

A major example of this plate movement is along the coastline of South America (at the Nazca and South American plate boundary). Fold Mountains, such as the Andes, are also found at destructive ...