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Plate Boundaries Diagram Type of boundary and motion at boundary Feature Created or Destroyed Example Divergent Plates move apart *new seafloor created *ocean ridges created *Great Rift Valley, Africa *Mid-Atlantic Ridge Convergent Subduction Ocean to continent Ocean plate goes under continental *crust destroyed *volcanic arc created *Cascade Mts. (Mt. St. Helens) *Andes Moun-tains (in Peru) Convergent Subduction Ocean to ocean One plate goes under the other *crust destroyed *island arcs created *trenches created *Mariana Trench *Japan *Philippines Convergent Colliding Continent to continent Plates come together *ocean crust destroyed *mountains created *Urals (Russia) *Alps (Europe) *Himalayas (Asia) Transform Fault Plates slide past each other *Nothing created *Nothing destroyed *San Andreas Fault (California)
