Geological process
Convergence in which two continental plates meet and neither is subducted, because continental crust resists downward motion. The crust instead buckles, shortens and thickens.
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In continental collision the crust buckles and is pushed upward or sideways rather than descending, because neither continent will subduct.
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Evidence: Kious 1996 Primary authority
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