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Could the collision of one continental plate with another may produce oceans?
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∙ 13y ago
No, they form mountains.
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What is the relationship between continental drift and formation of the earths oceans?
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What type of information show that continental drift has occurred EXCEPT?
Maybe the depth of oceans
Are the Himalayas an example of a continental- continental convergent plate boundary?
Although they aren't common, yes, transform faults can give rise to mountains. Most transform faults take place between oceanic crust, but an easy-to-see example is that of the San Andreas Fault giving rise to the San Gabriel Mountains.
What is made of sediment and located at the bottom of the continental slope?
The accumulation of sediment at the bottom of a continental slope is referred to as continental rise. This phenomenon occurs in oceans throughout the world.
What do scientists believe that is happening to the segments of earths crust?
it has been washed into the oceans as the continental crust has eroded.
What oceans border the continental US?
antarctic and pacific oceans
Do oceans produce sugar instead of salt?
Oceans of and by themselves produce neither.
How might the continental shelf be affected if you had another ice age?
When there is another glaciation, water from the oceans will be locked up on land as ice. This will cause the sea levels to go down and more of the continental shelves will be exposed above sea level.
The best fishing in the oceans occur where?
Off the Continental Shelf.
Air mass that forms over oceans?
it is the continental tropical (cT)
What is the relationship between continental drift and formation of the earths oceans?
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What does plate movement produce?
Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, plate tectonics, continental drift, oceans, mountains, continents, lava, islands, ash, changes in weather, changes in airline schedules, and much more.
What are the continents in the oceans?
a continent is compared to the continental shelf except the continent is on the in outside
When oceans plates collide with continental plates the denser ocean plate does what?
sinks
What types of information show that continental drift has occurred?
Maybe the depth of oceans
What is the collective noun of oceans?
what is another name for oceans
Another word for oceans using oceans letters?
sea
