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What is the name of the process of denser crust sinking beneath less dense crust after collision?
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∙ 10y ago
its called subduction
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What is the process of denser crust sinking beneath less dense crust after collision called?
subduction
Why did chances peak erupt?
The volcano erupted due to it lying on a destructive plate boundary, where the denser North American Plate, was sinking underneath the less dense Caribbean Plate causing a subduction zone. Due to the sinking of the North American Plate into the mantle, magma started to rise to which caused the volcano to erupt.
Which material formed during smelting is denser molted metal or slag?
The molten metal is the denser material, the slag floats on top of it and can be "scooped" off during the smelting process.
What is downwelling?
The Coriolis Effect causes water to be pushed onto shore and when the water on the surface of the sea becomes denser than the water beneath it, it sinks.
Why does the oceanic sink beneath continental crust at convergent boundaries?
The continental crust is less dense than the oceanic crust. That's the reason we find that the oceanic crust sinks (subducts) beneath the continental crust.Continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust and so cannot sink below it.
The process of denser crust sinking Beneath less dense crust after collision is called?
subduction
What is the process of denser crust sinking beneath less dense crust after collision called?
subduction
What is the process of denser crust sinking beneath less dense crust after collision is called what?
the answer is unknown!! sorry guys!!:}
How the melting of the interior of the earth helped to bring about differentiation?
Its a process by which denser material is separated from lighter material and is set in layers with the heavier and denser material sinking to the core and the lighter to the surface.
Why do you think the denser plate subducts in a collision?
because the denser plate is always the one that sinks
Is the sinking air denser than the rising air?
Yes, that's why it sinks.
What is the sinking of denser water and rising of less dense water called?
less mater
Why do seismic waves speed up beneath the surface of continents?
Because earths crust is denser than the mantle
When plates collide the denser plate will ride over the less denser plate?
No, the denser plate sinks under the less dense plate in a process called subduction.
A denser plate sinking under a less dense plate is called what?
If you are talking about plate tectonics, the action you're referring to is called subduction.
Why does ocenaic crust sink beneath the continental crust at a subduction boundary?
The oceanic crust is denser than the continental crust.
What happens when a plate gets subducted?
The colder, more dense plate is the one that subducts in a collision between two plates. In an oceanic to oceanic plate collision it is the older of the two plates that will subduct due to its higher density. In an oceanic to continental plate collision, it's the oceanic plate that will subduct because of its higher density.
