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What is the type of plate boundaries where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
At what kind of boundary does oceanic lithosphere plunge beneath and overriding continental plate?
Convergent oceanic-continental boundary
What geological feature does subduction zones cause?
Subductions zones result in the formation of a trench and also volcanoes on the overriding plate
What deep-ocean feature forms at subduction zones?
In a subduction zone an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate or another oceanic plate. The subduction plate introduces water into the mantle, lowering melting temperatures and generating magma. This causes volcanoes, usually stratovolcanoes, to form on the overriding plate. If the overriding plate is continental a mountain range may develop.
What is the type of boundary where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
As the oceanic plate slides beneath the overriding plate bends what is produced here?
A subduction zone or a trench.
Where are continental volcanic arcs found?
on the overriding plate near a subduction zone
What is the type of plate boundary where two plate move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
What is the type of plate boundary where two plates together causing where the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
What is the process that pieces of the plate that subducts may be scraped off and attached to the overriding plate forming mountains chains parallel to the plate boundary called?
An island arch.
What is the type of plate boundary where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath overriding plate?
Subduction
What is the type of plate boundaries where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
At what kind of boundary does oceanic lithosphere plunge beneath and overriding continental plate?
Convergent oceanic-continental boundary
What geological feature does subduction zones cause?
Subductions zones result in the formation of a trench and also volcanoes on the overriding plate
What deep-ocean feature forms at subduction zones?
In a subduction zone an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate or another oceanic plate. The subduction plate introduces water into the mantle, lowering melting temperatures and generating magma. This causes volcanoes, usually stratovolcanoes, to form on the overriding plate. If the overriding plate is continental a mountain range may develop.
What processes occur at plate edges?
Most tectonic activity takes place at a plate's edge or boundary. A plate moves as a single piece across the plastic top of the earth's mantle.
What is the type of boundary where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
