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A seafloor plate collides with a continal plate.what will happen?
The oceanic plate (sea-floor plate) is denser than the continental plate, so the oceanic plate will be pulled under the continental plate (subduction) and into the upper mantle, creating an underwater volcano.
What kind of boundary is a volcano?
volcanoes are caused by subduction. it could be an oceanic plate sub-ducting under a continental plate which would result in a coastal volcano or it could be an oceanic plate sub-ducting under another oceanic plate, which would result in a volcanic island.
When a continental plate and an oceanic plate collide why does the oceanic plate sink below the continental plate?
It's because the oceanic plate is more dense than the continental plate.
Is the arabian plate continental or oceanic?
oceanic plate
When an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate which plate is subducted?
When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, the oceanic plate is always subducted. Oceanic plates are denser than continental plates, and they have a higher iron content. Since they are denser, oceanic plates always sink below the continental plate in the event of a collision.
How is the lava formed insind a volcano?
When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, it forms a volcano. The oceanic plate subducts underneath the continental plate. As the oceanic plate slides underneath, a magma chamber is formed. This magma chamber is what feeds the volcano.
How is a volcano formed at a Continental Rift?
Volcanoes cannot be formed at a continental rift, due to the fact that a volcano cannot form between two continental plates: it normally forms when one continental plate and an oceanic plate collide. Normally, a volcano forms when one continental and one oceanic plate collides. The denser oceanic plate
How does a volcano occur in the middle of a continental or oceanic plate?
Intraplate volcanism.
Is the Pacific plate and oceanic plate or continental plate?
It is oceanic
What is a continental arc?
Is a tectonic process where two plates ( an Oceanic plate and a Continental plate) collide. In Continental Arc environments the weaker oceanic plate always sub ducts under the stronger Continental plate. Most Continental arc environments lead to Volcano formation.
If a plate of ocean crust plunged underneath a continental platewhat landforms do you expect to develop?
When the oceanic plate is subducted underneath the continental plate, the oceanic plate begins to melt. The molten material rises through the continental crust and a volcano forms.
A seafloor plate collides with a continal plate.what will happen?
The oceanic plate (sea-floor plate) is denser than the continental plate, so the oceanic plate will be pulled under the continental plate (subduction) and into the upper mantle, creating an underwater volcano.
What kind of boundary is a volcano?
volcanoes are caused by subduction. it could be an oceanic plate sub-ducting under a continental plate which would result in a coastal volcano or it could be an oceanic plate sub-ducting under another oceanic plate, which would result in a volcanic island.
When a continental plate and an oceanic plate collide why does the oceanic plate sink below the continental plate?
It's because the oceanic plate is more dense than the continental plate.
Is the arabian plate continental or oceanic?
oceanic plate
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
What explains the observation that when a continental and oceanic plate collide the oceanic plate dives down under the continental plate?
The oceanic plate must be more dense than the continental plate for this to happen.
