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What are some examples of collisions between a continental plate and an oceanic plate?
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The Andes mountains of South America and the Cascade Mountains of North America are some examples of a continental-oceanic plate boundaries.
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What are the three possible combinations of plate collisions at convergent boundaries?
The three possible combinations would be continental-continental, continental-oceanic, and oceanic-oceanic.
What 3 collisions occur at a convergent boundary?
Oceanic-continental convergent boundary, Oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary, and Continental-continental convergent boundary.
Collisions between oceanic plates and continental plates are thought to result primarily from?
Meteor impacts in the ocean basins
Differences between oceanic-oceanic and oceanic-continental subduction boundary?
Oceanic to oceanic- one plate sinks under the other Oceanic- Continental ocean crust sinks under the other
Which portion of the continental margin serves as a boundary between the oceanic crust and continental crust?
continental slope
Examples of where the three types of plate movements occur?
Continental- continental collisions, Continental-oceanic collisions,and Oceanic-oceanic collisions
What are the possible combinations of plate collisions at convergent boundaries?
The three possible combinations would be continental-continental, continental-oceanic, and oceanic-oceanic.
What are three possible combinations of plate collisions at convergent boundaries?
The three possible combinations would be continental-continental, continental-oceanic, and oceanic-oceanic.
What are the three possible combinations of plate collisions at convergent boundaries?
The three possible combinations would be continental-continental, continental-oceanic, and oceanic-oceanic.
What 3 collisions occur at a convergent boundary?
Oceanic-continental convergent boundary, Oceanic-oceanic convergent boundary, and Continental-continental convergent boundary.
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.
Collisions between oceanic plates and continental plates are thought to result primarily from?
Meteor impacts in the ocean basins
What are three types of orogeny?
Continental-continental, Oceanic-oceanic and Oceanic-continental convergent boundaries.
Convergence can occur between what types of plates?
1. oceanic-continental 2. oceanic-oceanic 3. continental-continental
How are convergent plate margins characterized?
Convergent plate margins are characterized as collision zones between plates and may involve continental to continental crust, continental to oceanic crust, or oceanic to oceanic crust. Those that involve oceanic crust result in subduction of the more dense plate into the Earth's mantle. Continental to continental plate collisions result in uplift of the surface features and mountain building and the margin may eventually become welded together.
Is Japan continental continental oceanic oceanic or continental oceanic?
Oceanic-Oceanic.
What are the types of collisions that happen at convergent boundaries?
Subduction (where one plate is forced beneath another less dense plate - may occur at oceanic-oceanic and oceanic-continental boundaries), obduction (where oceanic plate is forced over a continental plate) and orogenesis where two continental plates collide and mountains are formed (e.g. the Himalayas).
