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The crust is compressed into mountains (if it is continental crust) or subducted back into the mantle if it is oceanic crust.
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What changes occur when temperature and pressure inside Earth's crust change?
Deformation occurs
What is likely to occur at a plate boundary where oceanic crust collides with crust?
tides will occur.
What is likely to occur at a boundary where oceanic crust collides with continental crust?
tides will occur.
Where do subduction's occur?
Where crust is destroyed
What earth crust?
The crust is the upper layer of the earth. It is where the movement of plates occur due to which earthquakes occur. The Earth's crust is a thin layer of rock, like skin on an apple.
Does an earthquake occur only in continental crust?
No, earthquakes can occur anywhere in the crust, oceanic crust or continental crust. An earthquake occurs when the hard brittle solid material of the crust fractures under stress. Earthquakes cannot occur deeper than the crust (the mantle is plastic and flows slowly under stress instead of fracturing, the outer core is liquid and flows even easier than the mantle).
Why do most earthquakes occur in the litosphere?
the crust
Where does the Mohorovicic discontinuity occur?
Crust and Mantle.
Do volcanoes occur in thick or thin earth's crust?
Thin as continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust.
Why do supervolcanoes occur?
super volcanoes can occur when the magma rises into the crust from a hotspot but is unable to breakthrough the crust. Pressure builds in a large and growing magma pool until the crust is unable to contain the pressure.
What are typical characteristics of subduction zone?
Where oceanic crust meets continental crust and earthquakes can occur.
Which layer of the earth is most affected by an earthquake?
Earthquakes occur in the crust (solid rock) layer.
