In a nutshell, tectonic movement can be referred to as the movement taken by tectonic plates to form new tectonic plates by merging or diverging. Moreover, there are three types of tectonic movements: transform fault, convergent movement, and divergent movement. The convergent movement refers to the movement which resulted in the collision of two plates. On the other hand, the Divergent movement is the movement that has taken place due to the divergence of two plates. And lastly, transform fault is the movement where two plates get merged or diverged by the slip or strike. As a result, no loss or formation of landmass takes place. The topic is vast enough. Let’s dive directly into details. 

Convergent movement of tectonic plates

As the name suggests, when two boundaries collide and combine, the overall landmass would be referred to as the convergent plates. The movement where one boundary of the land is moving towards the other is termed the convergent movement of tectonic plates. Here, a landmass can be vanished by getting beneath the earth merge.

A process known as subduction takes place during this movement, a phenomenon where the marine lithosphere is recycled inside the mantle of the earth via merging boundaries or, say, convergent movement. A type of convergent movement is also there. Here, two plates collapse when they are at the almost equal horizon and thus are bumped up because neither is much more bottomed than another. It can lead to the formation of massive, towering mountainous regions. The great Himalayas are an example of this movement.  

Moreover, when coming to the causes of this movement, numerous natural disasters such as volcanism, earthquakes, orogenesis can be observed during this movement. The converging plates can be formed only when the convergent movement takes place between the given pairs of lithospheres.

• Oceanic-oceanic lithosphere.
• Oceanic-continental lithosphere.
• Continental-continental lithosphere.

Examples

• Convergent movement between Eurasian Plate and the Indian Plate. 
• Conversion movement between the Pacific Plate and the NW North American Plate. 

Divergent movement of tectonic plates

This movement is the converse of convergent movement. Rather than colliding, two plates travel apart from one another in this event. Here, this movement can be observed only when both lithospheres are of the same form, i.e. oceanic and oceanic or continental and continental. Moreover, oceanic lithospheres perform divergent movement more than continental plates. Furthermore, in divergent regions, the surfaces are drawn apart rather than pressed. The “slab pull” occurs whenever continents sink into another crust through their natural mass at plate boundaries and is the fundamental force driving plate motion.

Such dragging movement exposes the asthenosphere’s heated subsurface mantle material in divergent regions. Though the warmth of the bottom rocks does not vary, they adapt by dissolving whenever the strain on them decreases. It is known as adiabatic melting.

Examples of plates formed by the divergent movement

• Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Baikal Rift Zone
• East Pacific Rise

Transform fault of tectonic plates

In a nutshell, Conservent movement of tectonic plates is the movement where the two plates merge or diverge from each other and do not result in the formation or immersion of any landmass. Moreover, this movement is termed a transform fault. Here, the plates are mostly formed when two landmasses either collide by slipping on boundaries. However, this movement is also termed the strike-slip movement. 

Moreover, a heavy earthquake is usually observed during this instance. Here, tremors on transform faults have a narrow focal point. Since the plates do not move up or down, they slip past each other. As a result, it triggers trembling throughout the land.

Examples of transform vault of tectonic plates

• Queen Charlotte Fault, North America
• Alpine Fault, New Zealand
• Sagaing Fault, Myanmar

Conclusion

From all the above, we discussed all aspects of Tectonic movements. We can describe that tectonic movement as the movement where the landmass often merges or diverges from/to each other and forms a new plate. We learned all three types of tectonic movements, Convergent movement, divergent movement, and transform vault. In brief, convergent movement refers to the movement that caused the collision of two landmasses, divergent movement is the divergence of two landmasses, and transform fault is conservative movement. In the transform fault, no land is created or destroyed.