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What type of plate boundary creates a deep ocean trench along the edge of a continent?

A convergent plate boundary creates a deep ocean trench along the edge of a continent. In this boundary type, an oceanic plate is forced beneath a continental plate, leading to the formation of the trench due to subduction.


What ocean is the Mariana's Trench in?

The Mariana Trench is the deepest point in any ocean and is located in the Pacific Ocean.


When two oceanic plates collide it creates?

when two oceanic plates collide they create a deep-ocean trench, at deep-ocean trenches subduction occurs.


What does subduction?

Physically, a subduction zone creates a trench in the ocean. As an active event, a subduction creates an earth quake and possibly a tsunami (depending on how much water was displaced).


What are the deepest places on the surface of the earth located at subduction zone?

The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean is the deepest place on Earth, reaching a depth of about 36,070 feet. The trench is formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Mariana Plate. This process creates a deep trench in the ocean floor.


What is the deep ocean trench?

the answer i Izu the trench


What is deeper ocean trench or ocean volcanoes?

well, its the ocean trench. a trench is like a giant ditch and it basically sinks in. while the ocean volcanoes converge and push up.


Is wharton trench the deepest trench in Indian ocean?

Java Trench


How do you write ocean trench in a sentence?

The ocean trench is almost 7 miles deep.


Why is the Marianas trench famous?

It is the deepest trench in the whole ocean.


Where is a trench most likely to occur?

Trenches are most likely to occur at convergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates collide and one is forced beneath the other in a process called subduction. This creates deep oceanic trenches, such as the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, which is the deepest known trench on Earth.


What is the deep v shaped valley that lies along the bottom of the ocean?

This iis a trench.Also ocean basin is the deepest part of the ocean.