1.   If this were not the case significant deformation would occur within plates rather than being concentrated along plate margins.

2.   The fundamental types of landform created at convergent plate margins are orogens and island arcs.

3.   The most important of these variables is probably the heating of the plate margin since this will affect its thickness and strength.

4.   As these plateaus are more buoyant than normal oceanic crust they would tend to resist subduction and therefore be accreted to continents lying along plate margins.

5.   The literature on the structure and tectonic development of plate margins is vast, but unfortunately very little of it takes a specifically geomorphic perspective.

6.   Although volcanoes and associated volcanic landforms are clearly concentrated along plate margins, significant occurrences are also to be found in plate interiors.

7.   Along plate margins the horizontal motion of plates is the primary force driving the uplift which occurs in orogens.