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Which type of plate is thicker continental or oceanic?
Continental plate.
What type of plate boundaries does the Eurasian plate have?
The eastern side is a boundary with the North American Plate to the north and a boundary with the Philippine Sea Plate to the south, and possibly with the Okhotsk Plate and the Amurian Plate.
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.
What will happen if a seafloor plate collides with a continental plate?
It will subduct under the less dense continental plate.
What happends when an oceanic plate goes under a continental plate?
When an oceanic plate goes under a continental plate, the subducting plate ---> oceanic creates a curved line of volcanoes along the edge of the overlying continental plate.
What is the name of the tectonic plate in Hokkaido japan?
The Okhotsk Plate is the name of the tectonic plate near Hokkaido, Japan. Its borders are the Pacific Plate, the Philippine Sea Plate, the Eurasian Plate, and the Amurian Plate.
Which type of plate is thicker continental or oceanic?
Continental plate.
What type of plate boundaries does the Eurasian plate have?
The eastern side is a boundary with the North American Plate to the north and a boundary with the Philippine Sea Plate to the south, and possibly with the Okhotsk Plate and the Amurian Plate.
Is the Pacific plate and oceanic plate or continental plate?
It is oceanic
The thickest plate oceanic or continental?
Continental plate.
What plate formed mtfuji?
Mount Fuji, which is found in Japan is a type of island-arc volcano. It was formed by three plates, the Philippine plate, Eurasian plate and Okhotsk plate.
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 African plate continental or oceanic?
the african plate is continental
Is African plate continental or oceanic?
the african plate is continental
When an ocean plate collides with a continental plate it does what?
It subducts under the continental plate because the oceanic plate is denser.
What is an example of a continental to continental crust collision?
the recent earthquake in japan is an of the movement plate techtonics
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.
