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No, Ocean basins form when land drifts away, for example "Pangea" (North America,Europe,Asia&Africa) were once together & now, are not, theirfor ocean basins were created
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Are most plates boundaries continents or in ocean basins?
In ocean basins
How do plates cause ocean basins?
the earth.
When ocean plates collide with continental plates the denser ocean plate?
sinks
When ocean plates collide with continental plates what does the denser plate do?
sinks
When two oceanic plates collide it creates?
when two oceanic plates collide they create a deep-ocean trench, at deep-ocean trenches subduction occurs.
When oceans plates collide with continental plates the denser ocean plate does what?
sinks
When ocean plates collide with continental plates the denser oceanic plate?
sinks
What land form is created by tectonic plates crashing together?
this depends on the two plates that collide. Ocean plates are much heavier than continental plates. If an ocean and continental plate collide, the ocean plate sinks underneath and creates a trench. If two ocean plates or two continental plate collide, it creates a mountain range/ oceanic ridge depending on the type.
What leads to the creation of island arcs?
When two ocean plates collide.
What causes ocean basins to form?
under the earth start to overlap one another causing things in the ocean called basins to occur which is where ocean basins comes from.
Are formed when two ocean plates collide?
volcanoes in an island arc
What is formed on the bottom of the ocean where two plates collide?
continental slope
