In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at ...

This is called a destructive or convergent plate boundary. When the plates collide, the denser plate, usually the oceanic one, is forced underneath the continental plate. The force of this ...

Scientific, cultural and legal definitions of continental and oceanic regions continue to ... The scientific theory of plate tectonics became widely accepted during the 1960s.

Some of these plates move towards each other, known as convergent boundaries ... only place on Earth where continental crust is breaking apart to eventually form oceanic crust.