Construction crews in the Mojave Desert are erecting mirrors each measuring 70 square feetâat a rate of 500 per day across some 3,500 acres. (Gilles Mingasson). When completed in late 2013, the $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System will power 140,000 California homes.
Examples of Convergent Boundaries. The west coast of South America is a convergent boundary between the Nazca plate and the South American plate. The collision of this oceanic and continental plate was how the Andes mountains were formed.Convergent boundaries can also form islands.The northern part of the Pacific Plate is subducting under the North American Plate, and the result is the formation of the Aleutian Islands.he collision of this oceanic and continental plate was how the Andes mountains were formed. Convergent boundaries can also form islands. The northern part of the Pacific Plate is subducting under the North American Plate, and the result is the formation of the Aleutian Islands.
Plates move together at convergent plate boundaries and lithosphere is destroyed. There is a compressional stress on the undeformed rocks which causes the crust to shorten. Re â¦ verse faults (the hanging wall moves up) occur at convergent plate boundaries. Different types of convergent plate boundaries include: oceanic-oceanic, oceanic-continental, continental-continental. In oceanic-oceanic an oceanic trench forms because the oceanic crusts subducts. The oceanic crust, because of its higher density, also subducts in oceanic-continental convergent plate boundaries, which are the most common. In the last case, continental-continental- two continents collide.