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What force pushes upward on the continental crust What force pushes downward?
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Where does the oceanic crust begin?
The continental shelf is normally made out of continental crust, the oceanic crust begins at the base of the continental rise. However in most places the oceanic crust near the continental margins is covered by continental sediments (eroded form the continents) carried down onto the Oceanic planes by deep sea canyons running off the continental rises.
What happens when continental crust collides continental crust?
A mountain gets made
Why is oceanic crust subducted under continental crust?
Continental crust is less dense and cooler than oceanic crust and less dense and cooler than the asthenosphere, therefore instead of subducting, it is pushed upward in a collision between continents, or floats over a subducting oceanic crust.
Which is thicker continental crust or oceanic crust?
Continental crust A+
What is the continental crust of the earth?
what is the continental crust
What pushes up continental crust?
the tectonic plates
What forms when a continental crust is pushed upward?
a mountain
What are convertgent boundaries?
A conversion boundary is a place where 2 tectonic plates are mving toward each other. There are 3 types of convergent boundaries OCEANIC CRUST-OCEANIC CRUST OCEANIC CRUST-CONTINENTAL CRUST CONTINENTAL CRUST-CONTINENTAL CRUST They are classified according to their crust
Where does the oceanic crust begin?
The continental shelf is normally made out of continental crust, the oceanic crust begins at the base of the continental rise. However in most places the oceanic crust near the continental margins is covered by continental sediments (eroded form the continents) carried down onto the Oceanic planes by deep sea canyons running off the continental rises.
What happens when continental crust collides continental crust?
A mountain gets made
Why is continental crust deeper than oceanic crust?
The oceans flow to the places where the crust is the lowest. Gravity causes them to flow downward. The mantle, below the crust, is at the same depth everywhere, so if the crust is lower, it is because it is thinner.
Why is oceanic crust subducted under continental crust?
Continental crust is less dense and cooler than oceanic crust and less dense and cooler than the asthenosphere, therefore instead of subducting, it is pushed upward in a collision between continents, or floats over a subducting oceanic crust.
Which is thicker continental crust or oceanic crust?
Continental crust A+
What is the continental crust of the earth?
what is the continental crust
This layer of the crust is made of granite?
continental crust
Which boundry does a rift valley forrm at?
divergant boundries. new rock is formed and pushes the older seafloor outward towards the continental crust.
Which is thicker continental crust oceanic crust?
Continental crust is the thicker of the two: it extends far beneath and above the Oceanic crust.
