Here is this photo we see convergent plate boundaries form where lithospheric plates collide along their boundaries with each other. Such collisions cause extensive deformation at the Earth’s crust, leading to the formation of volcanoes, the lifting of mountain ranges and the creation of deep oceanic trenches. Convergent plate boundaries are also characterized by extensive earthquake activities, which occur along the sections of the Nazca-Pacific convergent boundary in Chile and Peru, for example.
The types of stresses demonstrated here are tensional, and faulting is dominate in the structural style here, which are normal faults from my understanding.
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