Triple Junction | Stability | Geotectonics | Geology | GATE | IIT JAM
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A triple junction is the point where the boundaries of three tectonic plates meet.
At the triple junction each of the three boundaries will be one of three types – a ridge (R), trench (T) or transform fault (F).
triple junctions can be described according to the types of plate margin that meet at them (e.g. Fault-Fault-Trench, Ridge-Ridge-Ridge, or abbreviated F-F-T, R-R-R).
Of the 16 possible types of triple junction only a few are stable through time ('stable' in this context means that the geometrical configuration of the triple junction will not change through geologic time).
The meeting of four or more plates is also theoretically possible but junctions will only exist instantaneously!
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