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The oceanic Nazca plate is being subducted beneath the continental South American plate. Which type of plate boundary is this?

eanic convergent

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ocean-continent convergent boundaries

Examples of ocean-continent convergent boundaries are subduction of the Nazca Plate under South America (which has created the Andes Range) and subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate under North America (creating the mountains Garibaldi, Baker, St.

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