Plate Borders and Mountain Building
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This page features animations of four different types of plate boundaries, including one animation of the collision of two pieces of continental crust, forming steep mountain ranges. The animations are all presented in flash, and the plate convergence offers a useful, generic view of orogeny.

This resource is referenced here:Keywords: plate boundaries, mountain building, orogeny