Scientific, cultural and legal definitions of continental and oceanic regions continue to ... If a continent is caught in a convergent zone between plates, then the crust can become very thick ...

The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth. Deep below the Earth ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...