Convergent Plate Boundaries (continued)

Subduction Zone Complex

• melange
  
• ophiolite suite
  

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figure 6.21, p. 148

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• oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundary (see above)
  
• continental-oceanic convergent plate boundary
  

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Continent-Continent Collision

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Continent-Continent Collision

• Suture zone
  
• Foreland basin
  
• thrust faults
  
• regional metamorphism
  

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