MARGIN PLATE

• This can either cause one plate to go under and the other to be pushed up or two plates to smash together and push upwards (CONVERGENT )
• this process can form majestic fold mountains and deep trenches and often create powerful earthquakes this is how the himalayas in nepal home of earth's highest mountain mount everest were formed (CONVERGENT)
• at a conservative or transform plate margin two plates slide against each other either in different directions or in the same direction at different speed
• example of this is the san andreas fault in california our earth is a dynamic and active planet and its surface is composed of many individual plates that are always on the move due to the convection currents within (TRANSFORM)