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it when one of tectonic plates (lithosphere) descends under another plate (asthenosphere)
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What is a plate in geological terms?
crust?
What is the process in which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle is called?
subduction is the answer.
What is the process of the ocean floor sinking beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle known as?
It is called subduction.
How do geological and human time scales differ?
The geological time scale is hugely larger than the human time scale. For humans, a decade is a significant period of time, and even our civilizations span only a few thousand years... whereas in geological terms even a million years isn't that much.
What is a synonym for subduction?
A synonym for subduction is decrease.
What is the geological process by which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle?
subduction
What is a palaeosubduction?
A palaeosubduction is an event of subduction which occured in the geological past.
Which two geological features are associated with subduction?
trenches and volcanoes
What does subduction have to do with geology?
Subduction is part of the geological process of plate tectonics. A subduction zone is a place where the oceanic plate is sinking back in to the mantle (usually at the edge of a continental plate.
Geological phenomenon in which the ground sinks called?
In tectonics, the process is known as subduction.
What is a plate in geological terms?
crust?
What geological feature does subduction zones cause?
Subductions zones result in the formation of a trench and also volcanoes on the overriding plate
If so can water be a mineral?
In geological terms, a mineral must be a solid
What is dehydration depending on geology?
Dehydration in geological terms is a process which occures during metamorphosis. As a rock moves to a higher pressure and temprature, say as it is traveling down a subduction zone the water will gradually be taken out of it. The deeper the rock travels, the more dehydrated it becomes untill eventually there is no water left in it and it is compleatly dry.
List of geological terms?
Please refer to the related link and you'll learn a lot of them!
How does earths crust get recycled?
The crust is recycled by subduction which is.... a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
What is the process in which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle is called?
subduction is the answer.
