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What is the difference between a subduction zone and a continent continent collision zone?
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What is the difference between a continent and a planet?
Continents are the landforms on a planet. A planet (in OUR solar system) revolves aound the Sun.
What is the outcome of the collision between oceanic and continental crust?
Usually subduction of the denser thinner oceanic crust under the lighter thicker continental crust. This also produces a row of volcanoes in the continental crust producing lava high in water content and resulting in explosive eruptions.
How is the activation energy related to whether or not collision between molecules is successful?
Generally speaking, the lower the activation energy, the more successful collision between molecules will happen.
What is intermontane zone?
The Intermontane Plate was an ancient oceanic tectonic plate that lay on the west coast of North America about 195 million years ago. The Intermontane Plate had a chain of volcanic islands called the Intermontane Islands. The Intermontane Islands had been accumulating as a volcanic chain in the Pacific Ocean since Triassic time, beginning around 245 million years ago. The volcanism records yet another subduction zone. Beneath the far edge of the Intermontane microplate, another plate called the Insular Plate was sinking. This arrangement with two parallel subduction zones is unusual. The modern Philippine Islands are located on the Philippine Mobile Belt, one of the few places on Earth where twin subduction zones exist today. Geologists call the ocean between the Intermontane islands and North America the Slide Mountain Ocean. The name comes from the Slide Mountain Terrane, a region made of rocks from the floor of the ancient ocean.Collision of the Intermontane IslandsOver early Jurassic time, the Intermontane Islands and the Pacific Northwest drew closer together as the continent moved west and the Intermontane Microplate subducted. On the continent, subduction supported a new volcanic arc that again sent intruding granite-type rocks into the ancient continental sediments. Eventually, about 180 million years ago in the middle Jurassic, the last of the microplate subducted, and the Intermontane Islands collided with the Pacific Northwest. The Intermontane Islands were too big to sink beneath the continent. The subduction zone of the Intermontane Plate shut down, ending the volcanic arc. As the Intermontane Belt accreted to the edge of the continent, the subduction zone of the Insular Plate became the active subduction zone along the edge of the continent.
How any tectonic plates intersect in Iran?
The Iran Plate or Iranian Plate is a triangular plate between the Eurasian Plate, the Indian plate and the Arabian Plate. It is often considered a part of the Eurasian Plate.The boundary with the Arabian Plate is a subduction zone, also known as the Zagros Thrust. Here the Arabian Plate is subducted beneath the Iranian Plate, giving rise to desastrous earthquakes The boundary with the Eurasian Plate is a suture zone (North Iran Suture) from the collision between the Iran plate and the Turan Plate (to the north) during Middle Triassic. So the suture is a result of the closure of the Paleotethys and the continent-continent collision with the southern active margin of Eurasia (Turan Plate). The Iran-Turan suture zone is extending from Kopet Dagh in the southeast passing through Binalud (north) to the Caspian Sea in the west. The suture zone is marked by ophiolites.
What is the difference between subduction zone and a continent continent collision zone?
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What is the difference between subduction zone and collision zone destrutive plate margin?
A subduction zone and a collision zone are the same place, a collision just happens earlier, when the crusts of the two plates are interacting. Later, when the crust of one plate is being forced under the crust of another plate into the mantle, it becomes a subduction zone.
What is the difference between an effective collision and ineffective collision of reactant particles?
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What are the two ways plates converge?
There are two basic types of convergent boundary. The first is a subduction zone, which occurs at a collision between two plates carry oceanic crust or one carrying continental and once carrying oceanic crust. In such a collision, one oceanic plate will subduct under the other and sink into the mantle. Such a collision produces volcanoes on the overriding plate and will produce mountain ranges on a continent. The other type of convergent boundary occurs when two continent collide. These collisions produce high mountains but not volcanoes. No subduction occurs as continental crust is not dense enough to sink into the mantle.
What is the difference between collision and explosions?
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What is the difference between a transform fault and the subduction zone?
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What is a difference between a continent and a country?
a continent is made up of countries
What is a difference between a Country and a Continent?
a continent is made up of countries
What is the difference between collision and liabiltiy insurance?
Collision protects you and your car if you are in an accident, liability protects whomever you may hit.
What is the difference between collision and conservative margins?
collision is when two plates collide conservative is when two plates rub together
What do you think may cause there to be a difference between the momentum before and after the collision?
Friction
What is the difference between a continental and an oceanic crust collision?
Oceanic plates don't collide. They split and drift away from the fractures, which becomes filled with erupted magma to form spreading-ridges. E.g. the Mid-Atlantic / Reykjanes Ridges whose junction hosts Iceland. A collision between oceanic plateand continent usually results in subduction, with the ocean floor being bent downwards and forced below the continent. The results are earthquakes from the stick-slip movement on the thrust-plane, and violently explosive arc volcanoes and plutonic developmentfrom magmarising from partial melting of the subducted crust plus water and organically-rich sediment dragged down with it. E.g., S.E Asia and the Pacific 'Ring of Fire'. Collision between continents as the ocean finally closes develops mountain ranges. The Himalayas are still rising as India continues to push Northwards into Asia.
