How does an existing convergent boundary eventually cease to exist?

a. It dies when a piece of buoyant lithosphere moves into the subduction zone
b. Due to the process called "rifting"
c. During the process of collision
d. All of the above
e. Both a and c


Answer: e. Both a and c

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