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In a subduction zone, the dense, cold oceanic plate collides with the lighter, warmer continental plate and is forced down underneath it into the mantle. The motion is downwards and the force is called "slab pull".
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What zone formed where two oceanic plates collide?
zone of subduction
When plates collide what forms above the subduction zone?
mountais
What forms on overriding plates at a subduction zone?
mountain or volcanoe
A region where oceanic plates sink down?
Subduction Zone
The ocean floor is destroyed at?
At the subduction zone of two tectonic plates.
What is a region where oceanic plates sink down into the asthenosphere?
Most notable is the so-called 'Ring of Fire', an area encircling the Pacific Ocean where oceanic crustal plates are subducting under continental plates and less dense oceanic plates.
Plates move together at a what?
Subduction zone.
What zone formed where two oceanic plates collide?
zone of subduction
What forms where two oceanic plates collide?
subduction zone
Where the seafloor is forced under continental plates?
the subduction zone
When plates collide what forms above the subduction zone?
mountais
What forms on overriding plates at a subduction zone?
mountain or volcanoe
A region where oceanic plates sink down?
Subduction Zone
What is a subducation zone?
A subduction zone is a place that occurs between two tectonic plates. It is the site where these tectonic plates have collided.
What do you call the zone where a lithospheric plates slides back into the earth?
It is called a subduction zone.
What is a suduction zone?
A subduction zone is a convergent boundary where two tectonic plates collide.
What subduction zone?
Subduction is when two plates collide, and one moves underneath the other, or subducts. The denser one is the one that subducts. Subduction is caused by the collision of two plates.
