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How can mountain formation be described according to the theory of plate tonics
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How can mountain formation be described according to the theory of plate tonics

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Convergent plates slowly come together, and over an amount of time, push together, and one either submerges, or they both buckle. Either way can form a mountain, because either way raises land up to the point where it eventually forms mountains.
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