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What happens to oceanic crust in most ocean - continent collisions?
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How do divergent boundaries of oceanic crust form islands?
Collisions of plates
What happens when oceanic crust sinks?
It turns into magma
What are the two types of crust and which rocks make up each crust?
there are two types of crust such as the oceanic crust and the continental crust, the oceanic crust is thinner and more dense than the continental crust and is constantly being recycled via subduction upon collisions with Continental crust, and creating at mid-ocean ridges. x
What happens to mantle rock descending oceanic crust scrapes past continental crust?
The mantle rock descending from the oceanic crust causes the water in oceanic crust to be released. This lowers the melting point of the rock and causes it to melt.
What is the name of ocean crust?
oceanic crust.
What means the ocean is pulled under the continent?
The ocean is never pulled under the continent. Oceanic crust--the rock and some sediments, however, slide under the edges of continental crust and are pushed downward toward the mantle in areas of oceanic to continental plate collisions.
The margin of a continent is the boundary between continental crust and?
oceanic crust
How do divergent boundaries of oceanic crust form islands?
Collisions of plates
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.
What happens when a plate of oceanic crust collides with a plate of the continental crust and why does this happen?
The oceanic crust will slide under the continental crust. And the reason is because the oceanic crust is much denser and the continental crust is least dense.
What happens when a heavier oceanic crust collides with a continental crust?
Trench
What happens when a plate of oceanic crust collides with a plate of Continetal crust why?
the oceanic crust slides down and burns in the mantle and forms a volcano
What happens to two oceanic crust when they collide?
the older crust is subducted and later pushed up to form oceanic arcs
What happens when the oceanic crust is increasing along mid-oceanic ridges?
when the crust increase the sea leavels beacem higher
What happens when oceanic crust sinks?
It turns into magma
What do you call the land under te ocean from which the continent rises?
Oceanic Crust
What are the two types of crust and which rocks make up each crust?
there are two types of crust such as the oceanic crust and the continental crust, the oceanic crust is thinner and more dense than the continental crust and is constantly being recycled via subduction upon collisions with Continental crust, and creating at mid-ocean ridges. x
