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Title: Convection and Tectonics.
Caption: This animation illustrates the slab-push and slab-pull processes at work at an oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary. It also shows a mantle-plume hot spot forming an island.
Keywords: plate tectonics, tectonic plates, divergent, mid-ocean ridges, seafloor spreading, divergent, convergent boundary, boundaries, subduction, island volcanic arcs, mantle plumes, slab suction, slab pull, hot spots, volcanism, volcanoes