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What is the name of the process where ocean crust sinks back toward the mantle?
It is called subduction and only occurs in oceanic to oceanic or oceanic to continental plate collisions.
Subduction occurs where the oceanic crust bends down towards the mantle at a?
deep ocean trench.
Subduction occurs when?
It can occur in a subduction zone.
What is the process of the ocean floor sinking beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle known as?
It is called subduction.
What is the definition of Continental Continental collision?
The definition of ocean continental collision means the continental crust and the ocean's crust collide with one another. A subduction is formed when the collision occurs.
What is the name of the process where ocean crust sinks back toward the mantle?
It is called subduction and only occurs in oceanic to oceanic or oceanic to continental plate collisions.
Means the ocean floor is pulled under the continent?
This occurs in a subduction zone.
What zone appears when an ocean pate sinks beneath a continental plate?
This is called the subduction zone.
Subduction occurs where the oceanic crust bends down towards the mantle at a?
deep ocean trench.
If subduction occurs faster than oceanic crust can be created an ocean will expand or decrease?
Expand
What occurs when an ocean plate sinks below a continental plate?
Subduction into the upper mantle and melting.
SUbduction occurs where the oceanic crust bends down toward the mantle at a(an)?
deep ocean trench.
What is the definition of ocean ocean collision?
The definition of ocean continental collision means the continental crust and the ocean's crust collide with one another. A subduction is formed when the collision occurs.
Subduction occurs when?
It can occur in a subduction zone.
What plate boundary forms arcs of volcanoes and deep-ocean trenches?
A convergent plate boundary where subduction occurs.
What is the process of the ocean floor sinking beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle known as?
It is called subduction.
Why do deep-ocean trenches form at both types of subduction?
The deepest portions of the subducting plate get pulled under by the subducted plate. This is how the trench is formed. this process is at work when any subduction occurs. An oceanic-continental subduction occurs when ocean crust sinks under continental crust. The oceanic crust sinks because it is colder and denser than the continental crust. At these sites, deep-ocean trenches form, along with coastal mountains.
