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It is called subduction and only occurs in oceanic to oceanic or oceanic to continental plate collisions.

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Q: What is the name of the process where ocean crust sinks back toward the mantle?
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Where oceanic crust sinks toward the mantle beneath continental crust a deep ocean?

A deep ocean subduction trench


SUbduction occurs where the oceanic crust bends down toward the mantle at a(an)?

deep ocean trench.


What is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary called?

This process is called subduction.


What is below the ocean floor?

Crust mantle core


At deep ocean trenches what allows oceanic crust to sink back into the mantle?

Conduction. Heat istransferred from the mantle to the crust, melting it to become part of the mantle.


What is subuction?

subduction is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.


Is there magnetic strips on the ocean floor are places where oceanic crust sink back to the mantle?

Is there magnetic stripe son the ocean floor are places where oceanic crust sink back to the mantle


What is a result in the process where the ocean floor sinks beneath the crust and back into the mantle?

The process where the ocean floor sinks beneath the crust and back into the mantle is known as subduction. This is the result of the collision of two tectonic plates. This in turn results in the formation of fold mountains and volcanism (such as that which occurs in the Western US - for example Mt. St. Helens and the Western coast of South America).


Ocean crust is denser than the continental crust because it contain more of which 3 element?

It is the crust and mantle,and core


What means the ocean is pulled under the continent?

The ocean is never pulled under the continent. Oceanic crust--the rock and some sediments, however, slide under the edges of continental crust and are pushed downward toward the mantle in areas of oceanic to continental plate collisions.


Earth crust grows at mid ocean ridges why doesnt the earth grow larger?

At the opposite end of the convection current in the Earth's mantle that creates oceanic crust at the mid-ocean ridge, are trenches, where oceanic crust is diving down into the mantle. The Atlantic Ocean is expanding. The Pacific Ocean is shrinking.


Oceanic crust returns to the mantle at deep ocean trenches which are?

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