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What is it called when an ocean plate subducts or goes down into the mantle?
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Where do trenches form?
Treches are formed when an ocean plate subducts under a continental plate.
When an ocean plate collides with a continental plate it does what?
It subducts under the continental plate because the oceanic plate is denser.
Does an ocean crustal plate rises at a convergent boundary with a continental plate?
No. It subducts under the continental plate.
Where does oceanic and continental plates meet?
In a head-on collision, the oceanic plate subducts into the mantle.
What is the effect when an oceanic plate meets a continental plate?
the oceanic plate subducts under the continental plate and then melts in the mantle and often will create volcanos along the conitinental plate.\
What is the effect when a oceanic plate meets a continental plate?
the oceanic plate subducts under the continental plate and then melts in the mantle and often will create volcanos along the conitinental plate.\
Which force drives subduction?
An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced
What is it called when one oceanic plate is forced beneath another plate?
Subduction.This specific process occurs at a destructive plate margin.The oceanic plate subducts at around 25-45 degrees into the mantle and the friction produced between the two plates triggers earthquakes.
When the ocean floor collides with a crustal plate what happens?
it subducts underneath the crustal plate
What is ocean's trench?
Ocean trench is a long, narrow and deep depression in the ocean floor.
What happens if an oceanic to oceanic happens?
When an oceanic to oceanic happens, two oceanic plates converge and one of the plates subducts into a trench. The subducted plate sinks down into the mantle and begins to melt. Molten rock from the plate rises toward the surface and forms a chain of volcanic islands, also called a volcanic island arc, behind the trench in the ocean.
What is responsible for making an oceanic plate move?
Broadly, plate tectonics. Slab pull, more specifically, when oceanic lithosphere becomes more dense than the mantle rock beneath it, and subducts.
