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The heavier/denser oceanic plate subducts the lighter, less - dense continental plate.
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∙ 14y agoBetween colliding lithospheric plates, the least dense oceanic crust is the one to subduct.
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What plate tectonic is the santorini volcano?
Santorini is on the Eurasian Plate near where the African Plate subducts beneath it.
What can form when one oceanic plate subducts under another oceanic plate?
Tectonic
What two landforms are formed far from the plate boundaries?
The two plates are; Indo-Australian Plate subducts and Pacific Plate that form the Puysegur Trench.
What will happen eventually to the plate that is subductingn?
The heat from the inside of the earth melts the plat as it subducts.
You are one plate sinking beneath another?
It subducts under another
Why do you think the denser plate subducts in a collision?
because the denser plate is always the one that sinks
Are subducting plate and oceanic plate the same?
No. While only oceanic crust can subduct it is not always subducting. When two oceanic plates converge, only one of them subducts.
What is the relationship between the pacific plate and the Eurasian plate?
The Pacific plate subducts beneath the eurasian plate
When an ocean plate collides with a continental plate it does what?
It subducts under the continental plate because the oceanic plate is denser.
Does an ocean crustal plate rises at a convergent boundary with a continental plate?
No. It subducts under the continental plate.
What plate tectonic is the santorini volcano?
Santorini is on the Eurasian Plate near where the African Plate subducts beneath it.
What can form when one oceanic plate subducts under another oceanic plate?
Tectonic
Where do trenches form?
Treches are formed when an ocean plate subducts under a continental plate.
What are the name of the two major plates beneath New zealand?
The Pacific Plate subducts beneath northern New Zealand, and the Australian Plate subducts beneath New Zealand in the South.
When 2 plates diverge what happens?
The older denser plate subducts
What is continental-continental subduction?
the oceanic plate is more dense and subducts, or goes below, the continental plate.
What will occur at a convergent plate boundary?
as the plates move towards each other the denser plate subducts into the asthenphere
