At collision zones fold mountains will be formed. These are plate boundaries where two plates are either slipping past each other in opposite directions or at different rates in the same direction.

subduction zones may themselves be transformed to other types of plate boundary. For example, when India collided with Asia, an active subduction zone was transformed into a collision that formed ...

is forced underneath the continental plate. The force of this collision is so great that mountains are created. Earthquakes are very common at this type of boundary as the mountains are pushed ...