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What is produced in the convergence of two continental plates?

When the two continental plates converge, oceanic sediments are squeezed and upthrust between the plates and these squeezed sediments appear as fold mountains along the plate margins. The Himalayan Mountains are an example of this type of convergent plate boundary.

 

 

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