The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.
When a plate made of oceanic crust collides with a plate of carrying continental crust you have the ring of fire surrounding the Pacific Ocean. You have the earthquakes of California, Alaska, Japan, China, and Indonesia. You have the Volcanoes of Japan, Alaska, Mexico, Indonesia, and the rest of the Pacific rim. Do you remember Mt. St. Helen?
Usually the oceanic plate will subduct under the continental plate - creating a trench. Check out the Marianas Trench for an example.
When a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate and overtakes it, this is known as subduction.
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.
Continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust.
It subducts under the continental plate because the oceanic plate is denser.
The oceanic crust consists of heavier rock, mostly Basalt, so that if a oceanic plate collides with a continental plate the oceanic plate will be forced down below the continental plate, forming island arcs.continental plates are thicker than oceanic plates.
The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.
The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.
Trench
When the oceanic plate sinks it is absorbed back into the magma.
The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.
When a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate and overtakes it, this is known as subduction.
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.
when oceanic crust and continental crust collide, the oceanic crust sinks down beneath the continental crust. this is called subduction.
When continental crust collides with the same crust it creates an earthquake, or sometime it can cause a volcano to explode. Including oceanic crust.
it forms a trench
subduction
The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.