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What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary called?
This process is called subduction.
What are places where oceanic crust sinks back into the mantle called?
A "subduction zone".
What is subuction?
subduction is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate and sinks?
When the oceanic plate sinks it is absorbed back into the magma.
In the Earth's mantle heat is transferred in large convection currents. Within these currents?
, hot material rises towards the surface and cooler material sinks back down towards the Earth's core. This is called mantle convection and is driven by the heat generated from the Earth's core and the heat released from radioactive decay within the mantle. The motion of these convection currents is responsible for plate tectonics and the movement of continents over time.
What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary called?
This process is called subduction.
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 are places where oceanic crust sinks back into the mantle called?
A "subduction zone".
What is the name of the process where ocean crust sinks back toward the mantle?
It is called subduction and only occurs in oceanic to oceanic or oceanic to continental plate collisions.
What is subuction?
subduction is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate and sinks?
When the oceanic plate sinks it is absorbed back into the magma.
What are places where oceanic crust sinks back the the mantle?
A "subduction zone".
Where are the places where oceanic crust sinks back into the mantle.?
A "subduction zone".
In the Earth's mantle heat is transferred in large convection currents. Within these currents?
, hot material rises towards the surface and cooler material sinks back down towards the Earth's core. This is called mantle convection and is driven by the heat generated from the Earth's core and the heat released from radioactive decay within the mantle. The motion of these convection currents is responsible for plate tectonics and the movement of continents over time.
How does cycling of matter occur in earth's mantle?
Hot, soft rock rise from the bottom of the mantle towards the top, cools, and sinks back through the mantle.
What two things happen as a subducting plate sinks back into earth?
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