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What is the location where sinking of a plate occurs is called?
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What are happening to the earths plates in Japan Trench?
The pacific oceanic plate is sinking beneath conential plate
The force that occurs when plates are pushed together?
Plate tectonics
Why did chances peak erupt?
The volcano erupted due to it lying on a destructive plate boundary, where the denser North American Plate, was sinking underneath the less dense Caribbean Plate causing a subduction zone. Due to the sinking of the North American Plate into the mantle, magma started to rise to which caused the volcano to erupt.
What is the location of the volcanic belts?
along colliding and subducting plate margins
What occurs when a contenintal and oceanic plate collide?
A tsunami occurs
The location where the sinking of one plate beneath the other in a collisional boundary occurs is called a?
It is called a subduction zone.
What term is used to describe the location where sinking of a plate occurs?
subduction zone
A denser plate sinking under a less dense plate is called what?
If you are talking about plate tectonics, the action you're referring to is called subduction.
The force on the the rest to the plate from the asthenosphere below cooling sinking rock is called?
Ridge Push
What is happening to the earth's plates at the japan trench?
The pacific oceanic plate is sinking beneath the continental plate to which Japan is attached in what is called a subduction zone. The oceanic plate is being destroyed.
The thin band of cartilage where bone growth occurs is called the?
The thin band of cartilage where bone growth occurs is called the epiphysis plate. The plate's chondrocytes are under constant division by mitosis.
What occurs at a dee-ocean?
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What is a plate sinking beneth another?
Subduction.
What is One plate sinking under another?
Subduction
One plate sinking beneath another?
Subduction
When an oceanic plate moves under another plate the bending of the sinking plate creates a?
this is a destructive plate boundary. An earthquake and a vocano is created
What are happening to the earths plates in Japan Trench?
The pacific oceanic plate is sinking beneath conential plate
