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Most of the islands in the Philippine archipelago are considered part of the Philippine Mobile Belt.
True
Palawan, Mindoro, and the Zamboanga Peninsula are all lowland sections of the Sundaland block of the Eurasian plate.
False
The collision of the Philippine Mobile Belt with the Sundaland block explains the presence of trenches such as the Manila-Negros-Cotabato Trench System.
True
The Philippine Trench and East Luzon Trough are both products of subducting Philippine Sea Plate beneath the archipelago.
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The text ends with the word 'dow' because it was cut off.
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Oceanic-oceanic convergence resulted from the collision of two oceanic plates, with one of the plates diving under the other.
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The islands in the Philippine archipelago were formed 65 million years ago at the southern edge of the Philippine Sea Plate.
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Palawan, Mindoro, and the Zamboanga Peninsula are all highland sections of the Sundaland block of the Eurasian plate.
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The Manila-Negros-Cotabato Trench System and the Sulu Trench were formed due to the collision of the Philippine Mobile Belt with the Sundaland block.
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The Philippine Trench and East Luzon Trough are both products of the subducting Philippine Sea Plate beneath the archipelago.
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