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Ancient Convergent Plate Boundary-Appalachian Mountain Range. The range is mostly located in the United States but extends into southeastern Canada, forming a zone from 100 to 300 mi (160 to 480 km) wide, running from the island of Newfoundland 1,500 mi (2,400 km) southwestward to Central Alabama in the United States.
The Earthâs crust is made up of seven major plates and several smaller plates. These plates drift on top of the mantle. When two plates meet, they can either be constructive, destructive or conservative.At a conservative plate margin, one plate moves past another.he collision of the Eurasian plate and the Indian plate pushed up the Himalayas. At a constructive plate margin, plates pull apart from each other. In this case, new land is formed between the diverging plates.