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These are often marked by uplift and volcanic mountain belts on the continental plate.
Before the accretion of the island arc took place, subduction between a continental plate and presumably an oceanic plate was taking place.
This process is uncommon because the denser oceanic lithosphere usually subducts underneath the less dense continental plate.
These deposits offshore were then pushed into the continental plate as a forearc basin rotating slowly over millions of years.
An oceanic plate ordinarily slides underneath a continental plate; this often creates an orogenic zone with many volcanoes and earthquakes.
For the icehouse climate, tectonic activity also creates mountains, which are produced by one continental plate colliding with another one and continuing forward.
So the trench retreated oceanwards, and the old trench and ocean floor become part of the continental plate.
Orogens or orogenic belts develop while a continental plate is crumpled and is pushed upwards to form mountain ranges, and involve a great range of geological processes collectively called orogenesis.
As the continental plates migrate across the planet, the ocean floor is subducted under the leading edges.
Near some boundaries between the land and sea, the slightly denser oceanic plates slide beneath the continental plates and more subduction trenches are formed.
This style of deformation is typical of continental plates adjacent to convergent margins of long duration that have not sustained continent/continent collisions.
As the continental plates moved apart, they ruptured, and blocks subsided along fault lines forming the rift valleys that became sedimentary basins.
As they grate together, the continental plates are deformed and buckle causing mountain building and seismic activity.
Definition of "continental plates" is the realm of geologists.
Where two continental plates collide the plates either buckle and compress or (in some cases) one plate delves called subduction, under the other.
