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What type of plate boundary is the rocky mountains.

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continental convergences subduction zones

Step-by-step explanation:

Geologists call such oceanic-continental convergences subduction zones; the plate that possesses oceanic crust is denser than the continental plate, so it dives, or subducts, deep into Earth's mantle (the layer below the Earth's crust).

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