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Opposing this tendency toward leveling is a force responsible for raising mountains and plateaus and for creating new landmasses. These chan...

When the plates pull apart, two types of phenomena occur depending on whether the movement takes place in the oceans or on land. When plates...

When plates collide or push against each other, regions called convergent plate margins form. Along these margins, one plate is usually forc...

Finally, some of Earth’s plates neither collide nor pull apart but instead slide past each other. These regions are called transform margins...