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What happens when an oceanic crust colides with another oceanic crust?
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∙ 13y ago
The younger of the two plates, because it is less dense,* will ride over the edge of the older plate.
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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 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 happens when an oceanic and an oceanic plate collide?
since the oceanic crus is thinner than the Continental crust the oceanic crust get submerged and gets destroyed while the continental crust covers the submerged part as being taken over by continental crust....//\@Rtz Z@r...
What happens at an oceanic- oceanic subduction?
The plate with cooler, denser crust sinks under the other plate, forming a trench. There, the oceanic crust sinks down back into the mantle.
What happens at oceanic-oceanic subduction?
The plate with cooler, denser crust sinks under the other plate, forming a trench. There, the oceanic crust sinks down back into the mantle.
What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?
when oceanic crust and continental crust collide, the oceanic crust sinks down beneath the continental crust. this is called subduction.
What happens when a plate carrying oceanic oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust?
The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.
