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What happens when an oceanic plate moves under a continental plate?
When an oceanic plate moves under a continental plate, a subduction zone is formed. The oceanic plate is forced down into the mantle, where it melts and creates magma. This magma can then rise to the surface, causing volcanic activity on the continental plate.
What happens when oceanic and continental crust meets?
When oceanic and continental crust meet, a subduction zone is formed where the denser oceanic crust is forced beneath the less dense continental crust. This process typically results in the formation of deep ocean trenches, volcanic arcs, and earthquakes.
What happens to the earths crust at a subbduction zone?
In a subduction zone, an oceanic plate moves under another plate (whether continental or oceanic). Sometimes pressure builds up, and earthquakes occur.
Do earthquakes happen when a continental or oceanic plate moves over a hot spot?
Earthquakes happen because of continental plate shifts. Oceanic plate shifts cause title waves.
When one plate slides underneath of another plate it is called?
This process is known as subduction.
What are oceanic-oceanic and oceanic-continental subduction boundaries?
In the scope of lithospheric plate movements, both boundaries are areas where the more dense of the colliding plates slides under the lighter one, and moves toward the mantle. The melting of the subducted crust as it nears the mantle may cause volcanism either on the sea floor or on the continental land mass. Earthquakes will also result as the subducting rocks break and grind their way past the non-subducting plate rock.
What makes up a typical plate that moves across the earths surface?
a section of both continental and oceanic lithosphere
What makes up a typical plate that moves across earths surface?
a section of both continental and oceanic lithosphere
What happens when a plate moves?
usually there would earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mud slides
What happens when an oceanic plate moves under a conitental plates through a subduction?
it is the hawaii
What happens at a destructive margin?
At a destructive margin, also known as a convergent boundary, two tectonic plates collide. One plate is usually forced beneath the other in a process called subduction. This can result in the formation of deep ocean trenches, volcanic arcs, and earthquakes.
What is it called when two tectonic plates colide?
It's referred to as a Convergent Boundary If 2 Continental Plates --> Mountains If 2 Oceanic Plates --> Subduction of Heavier (older) Plate If Continental-Oceanic --> Oceanic Plate slides under the Continental Plate (Subduction of Oceanic)
