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What is Mariana Trench and what does it have to with tectonic plates?
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The Mariana Trench is the deepest trench in any of the world's oceans. It's in the western Pacific, east of the Mariana Islands (south of Japan and north of Papua New Guinea). The trench is located on a convergent (coming together) plate boundary where subduction is occurring (one plate is being pushed underneath the other). Trenches are a common occurrence at convergent land-sea plate boundaries.
the Mariana trench is the longest trench in the world its in the Pacific Ocean
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∙ 14y agoDestructive or Convergent
They are the same thing just Convergent is the common term and Destructive is used in school language
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What are the two tectonic plates that formed the Mariana Trench?
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What kind of plate was the marianas trench made on?
The Mariana Trench is on two tectonic plates: The Pacific Plate and the Mariana Plate. The Pacific Plate is beneath the Mariana Plate by subduction.
What tectonic plates are involved with Torga trench?
The Mariana trench of Japan is on a convergent boundary
What is the are where two tectonic plates meet?
a trench
What is the name of the trench near japan and its believed depth?
The deepest known trench is the Mariana Trench located off of the southern coast of Japan near the island of Guam. It's believed depth is about 11 km(6.8 mi). It is also located between two tectonic plates, where the Pacific Plate is subducted beneath the Phillipine Plate. - Zmaster804
What are the two tectonic plates that formed the Mariana Trench?
Your D & V
What kind of plate was the marianas trench made on?
The Mariana Trench is on two tectonic plates: The Pacific Plate and the Mariana Plate. The Pacific Plate is beneath the Mariana Plate by subduction.
What tectonic plates are involved with Torga trench?
The Mariana trench of Japan is on a convergent boundary
What does mariana trech has to do with tectonic plates?
you tell me?
What is the are where two tectonic plates meet?
a trench
What two plates formed the mariana trench?
The Marianas (or Mariana) Trench is formed by the subduction of the Pacific Plate as it is forced under the smaller Mariana Plate at the bottom of the ocean between Japan and New Guinea.
The mariana trench was most likely created by?
The Marianas trench is caused by the subduction of the western edge of, the Pacific tectonic plate beneath the eastern edge of the smaller Mariana Plate that lies to the west. Since the Pacific plate is the largest of all the tectonic plates on Earth, crustal material at its western edge has had a long time since formation (up to 170 million years) to compact and become very dense; hence its great height-difference relative to the higher-riding Mariana Plate, at the point where the Pacific Plate crust is subducted. This, in turn, results in a particularly deep trench.
What is on the ocean floor if the tectonic plates are moving towards each other?
a trench
What is an ocean trench and where do they occur?
i do not no sorry
What kind of tectonic plates associate with the Tonga Trench?
Pacific Plate
What is the name of the trench near japan and its believed depth?
The deepest known trench is the Mariana Trench located off of the southern coast of Japan near the island of Guam. It's believed depth is about 11 km(6.8 mi). It is also located between two tectonic plates, where the Pacific Plate is subducted beneath the Phillipine Plate. - Zmaster804
Is the Mariana trench convergent divergent or transform?
The Mariana Trench is a convergent plate boundary.
