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What happens when heavier oceanic crust converges with lighter crust at a deep ocean trench?
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The heavier (usually older and cooler hence more dense) oceanic crust normally subducts (is forced under) the younger less dense crust.
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What does the phrase 'the less buoyant plate is subducted' mean?
This means that the cooler, heavier oceanic plate at an oceanic to oceanic convergent boundary is forced into the mantle - under the hotter, lighter oceanic plate. OR At oceanic to continental boundary the heavier oceanic plate is forced into the mantle under the lighter continental plate.
Which kind of earth's plates is heavier and which is lighter?
Continental plates are lighter than oceanic plates
When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate .?
When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate, the oceanic plate slips under the continental one and into the mantle in a process called subduction. The area will be prone to large earthquakes and tsunamis. A chain of volcanoes will form on the continent.
What plate always subducts?
The heavier/denser oceanic plate subducts the lighter, less - dense continental plate.
What features are commonly formed at the plate boundaries where continental crust converges with oceanic crust?
trench..............................
What does the phrase 'the less buoyant plate is subducted' mean?
This means that the cooler, heavier oceanic plate at an oceanic to oceanic convergent boundary is forced into the mantle - under the hotter, lighter oceanic plate. OR At oceanic to continental boundary the heavier oceanic plate is forced into the mantle under the lighter continental plate.
Which kind of earth's plates is heavier and which is lighter?
Continental plates are lighter than oceanic plates
What happens when a heavier oceanic crust collides with a continental crust?
Trench
Oceanic crust is lighter than the continental crust?
No, the oceanic crust is denser. That's why the land areas "float" so much higher than the ocean bedrock.
When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate .?
When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate, the oceanic plate slips under the continental one and into the mantle in a process called subduction. The area will be prone to large earthquakes and tsunamis. A chain of volcanoes will form on the continent.
What happens when an oceanic plate converged with a continental plate?
When an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate, the oceanic plate slips under the continental one and into the mantle in a process called subduction. The area will be prone to large earthquakes and tsunamis. A chain of volcanoes will form on the continent.
What is the process where a heavier sea plate dives beneath a lighter continental plate is called?
an example of this is the marinas trench of the coast of japan and the continental plate of the Philippine's. the more denser oceanic plate is forced under by the lighter continental plate. this normally happens at destructive plate margins.
When does a part of oceanic plate sink into the mantle?
Usually when it meets another tectonic plate at a convergent plate boundary. If the oceanic plate converges with a continental plate the denser oceanic plate will be forced under the continental plate. If it converges with another oceanic plate the older (and therefore cooler and denser) plate will be forced under the younger plate.
What plate always subducts?
The heavier/denser oceanic plate subducts the lighter, less - dense continental plate.
What features are commonly formed at the plate boundaries where continental crust converges with oceanic crust?
trench..............................
When does a plate carrying continental crust converges with a plate carrying oceanic crust?
The oceanic plates gets subducted or goes under the continental plate
What happens when more dense oceanic crust of Nazca Plate converges with the less dense continental crust of the south America Plate?
The more dense oceanic crust will submerge below the less dense South American plate. This submergence leads to the melting of the oceanic crust and the production of magma that fuels the Andes Volcanic range.
