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Do the pacific plate have more oceanic lithosphere or more continental lithosphere?
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Oceanic. Most of the Pacific plate is under the Pacific Ocean.
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Give the name of one plate that contains mostly oceanic lithosphere and of one plate that continenmental litosphere?
The Pacific plate is mostly oceanic lithosphere while the North American plate is mostly continental lithosphere.
Is the Pacific plate and oceanic plate or continental plate?
It is oceanic
Why is oceanic lithosphere subducted during and oceanic continental collision where as the continental plate is not?
the oceanic plate is less bouyant so it slides under the continental plate
Where slab of oceanic lithosphere are subducted under continental lithosphere?
destuctive plate margin
At what kind of boundary does oceanic lithosphere plunge beneath and overriding continental plate?
Convergent oceanic-continental boundary
What is a plate in the concept of plate tectonics?
A mobile section of the Earth's lithosphere, either continental or oceanic.
What kinds of tectonic plates are there?
There are two kinds of plates- continental lithosphere and oceanic lithosphere. There are many types of plate boundaries, like convergent, divergent, transform, and more. Continental lithosphere is granite and oceanic is basalt.
What are the division of lithosphere?
Upper lithosphere, containing the continental crust/plate, known as the SiAl, and the Lowwer lithosphere composed of the oceanic crust/plate also reffered to as SiMa.
How is continental lithosphere different from oceanic lithosphere?
Continental plates are thicker and less dense. Continental plates are mainly granitic in composition. Oceanic plates are mainly basaltic in composition. The rock of continental plates is on average, much older than the rock of the oceanic plates. The oceanic plate underlies the oceans, and the continental plate makes up the land masses. Continental plates do not subduct at convergent plate boundaries.
Is the Philippines sea plate continental or oceanic?
The Philippine Sea Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Eurasian Plate, Pacific Plate, and Caroline Plate.
Name a plate that is entirely made of continental crust?
All major plates contain both continental and oceanic crust except for the Pacific and Nazca plates.
Do lithospheric plates include both continental crust and oceanic crust?
It is possible to have continental and oceanic crust on the same plate. The only to this exception is with the Pacific plate which exists independently.
