The process of collision causes the two plates to buckle and fold, and high mountain ranges and great earthquakes happen. The best example of this process is the collision of India and Eurasia. This collision has bent the Indian plate and raised the Himalaya mountains. In addition, it has compressed Eurasia and raised the Tibetan plateau, and caused great faults to form throughout Central and East Asia. At these boundaries, plates simply slide past one another, without creating or destroying lithosphere.
Earthquakes are common along transform faults.
A good example of a transform boundary is the San Andreas Fault in California. There is a fourth type of plate boundary, called a diffuse plate boundary , where the simple cases given above are heavily mixed and the tectonics are not easily explained. We will not discuss these boundaries in this class. Know the terms asthenosphere and lithosphere . The lithosphere is broken into separate rigid plates.