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A range of very high mountains.
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What kind of plate collision would most likely result in the formation of the most extensive mountain range?
two pieces of continental crust meeting at a convergent boundary
What is a common result of the collision of two continental plates?
A range of very high mountains.
What happens when a plate gets subducted?
The colder, more dense plate is the one that subducts in a collision between two plates. In an oceanic to oceanic plate collision it is the older of the two plates that will subduct due to its higher density. In an oceanic to continental plate collision, it's the oceanic plate that will subduct because of its higher density.
What happens when two continental plates come together?
When two Continental plates come together, they both collide.This forms mountains.
What is it called when two tectonic plates colide?
It's referred to as a Convergent Boundary If 2 Continental Plates --> Mountains If 2 Oceanic Plates --> Subduction of Heavier (older) Plate If Continental-Oceanic --> Oceanic Plate slides under the Continental Plate (Subduction of Oceanic)
What does the collision of a continental plate and an oceanic plate produce?
when two plates collide they form trenches.
What does the Himalayan Mountains result from?
According to the modern theory of plate tectonics, its formation is a result of a continental collision along the convergent boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
What is is a Continental collision?
Convergent Continental collision is where two tectonic plates move towards each other and the plate that is more dense moves underneath the less dense plate.
What is the process of a oceanic plate colliding with a continental plate?
Its when the oceanic crust and the continental crsut colide together.
What is the result of collision with two sections of the continental crust?
mountain formation
What kind of plate collision would most likely result in the formation of the most extensive mountain range?
two pieces of continental crust meeting at a convergent boundary
What plate collision would result in the formation of the most extensive mountain range?
two pieces of continental crust meeting at a convergent boundary:) study island 2012
The collision of two tectonic plates produces a volcano what types of plates could be involved?
two seafloor plates and a seafloor plate and continental plate
What is a common result of the collision of two continental plates?
A range of very high mountains.
Two sources that add to the size of continents?
Accretion from plate collision, and addition of crust from continental rifting.
Definition of mountain man?
There are mainly two kinds of mountains, namely fold mountains and block mountains. Fold mountains are formed when a continental plate collides with either another continental plate or an oceanic plate. One example of a continental-continental collision is the collision of the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate, forming the Himalayas fold mountains range which contains Mt. Everest and K2. One example of a oceanic continental collision is the collision of the Nazca plate and the South American plate, forming the Andes mountains. ---- Block mountains are formed when two plate diverge from each other and sink downwards, leaving a highland in the middle of them. That is a block mountain. You might find this useful, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountains.
What type of boundary causes mountains?
Mountain-building is a result of continental collision, so destructive plate boundaries. One plate is destroyed by subduction below the other, which undergoes compression, buckling and uplift as the collision continues. This is happening at present in Asia, raising the Himalayan Mountains.
