What effect for lithosphere can be found due to convergent plate boundaries?

a. Oceanic lithosphere created
b. Oceanic lithosphere destroyed, after one oceanic plate sank into the mantle
c. Lithosphere neither created or destroyed
d. Continental lithosphere created


Ans: b. Oceanic lithosphere destroyed, after one oceanic plate sank into the mantle

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