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What is the difference between the collision of an oceanic plate with a continental plate and the collision of two continental plates?
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When an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate which plate is subducted?
When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, the oceanic plate is always subducted. Oceanic plates are denser than continental plates, and they have a higher iron content. Since they are denser, oceanic plates always sink below the continental plate in the event of a collision.
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.
What is the process of a oceanic plate colliding with a continental plate?
Its when the oceanic crust and the continental crsut colide together.
Continental crust and the difference between oceanic crust?
Oceanic crust is mostly basaltic, which is denser, while continental crust is made from mostly basaltic and sedimentary rocks, which are less dense. This difference in density is why the oceanic crust sinks lower (thus the oceans) and the continental crust rides higher (thus the continents) on the mantle.
What is the difference between contiental crust and oceanic crust?
Continental crust is on top of the oceanic crust Continental crust is made of granite whereas oceanic crust is made of basalt Continental crust is partly above sea level and partly below whereas oceanic crust is always below sea level.
What is the difference between the continental crust and the oceanic crusts?
Most significantly, there is a material difference in the weight and density of the two types of crust. This manifests itself when tectonic movement brings oceanic in continental plates into collision. Oceanic crust is relatively denser but typically about 100km this. Continental crust is lighter but almost twice as thick--about 200km.
What are three types of orogeny?
Continental-continental, Oceanic-oceanic and Oceanic-continental convergent boundaries.
What accounts for the difference in density between oceanic and continental crust?
The oceanic is heavier
Collision of a continental and oceanic plate causes this in the plates?
compression
What is the difference between the continental and oceanic?
The material they are made of.
What does the collision of a continental plate and an oceanic plate produce?
when two plates collide they form trenches.
Why is oceanic lithosphere subducted during and oceanic continental collision where as the continental plate is not?
the oceanic plate is less bouyant so it slides under the continental plate
Is the Himalayas divergent or convergent?
Yes, the Himalayas are located on a convergent boundary.There are three types of convergent boundaries:-Oceanic-Oceanic-Oceanic-Continental-Continental-ContinentalOf the three types, the Himalayas are considered to be Continental-Continental. Meaning, it's a collision between two continental plates.
Match the mountains with the type of collision that formed them?
Andes - continental oceanic aleutians - oceanic oceanic North American cordillera - arc continent Appalachians - continental continental
What are two difference between the continental crust and the oceanic?
Two differences are that the oceanic crust is more dense than continental, and continental crust is composed mostly of granite, while oceanic is mostly basalt
What is the difference between continential and oceanic crust?
oceanic crust is much more dense than continental crust. Oceanic crust is also responsible for the movement of continental crust.
Where does oceanic and continental plates meet?
In a head-on collision, the oceanic plate subducts into the mantle.
