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What forms from collision of continental crust and oceanic crust?
A basic mountain should be formed from the collision of continental crust and oceanic crustAnswerWhen an oceanic and a continental crust collide, the heavier oceanic crust tends to subduct under the lighter continental crust. Because of the collision and corresponding compression and also because of volcanism related to dehydration and melting of the subducted plate a mountain range is formed. The Andes mountain range is a, if not the, most typical example.
How did Alfred Wegener explain mountain formations?
He said that it was due to plate tectonics, a theory which he is famous for. Two plates, either continental-continental, oceanic-continental or oceanic-oceanic collide at plate boundaries, causing an uplift of land. The oceanic plate or the denser plate will subduct. These uplifts will result in the formation of mountains, mountain ranges, volcanoes and islands.
Explain how a mountain range can be formed by an oceanic plate and a continental plate?
A mountain range can be formed by the collision of an oceanic plate and a continental plate. This creates a subduction zone which eventually leads to the formation of a range of mountains.
How do oceanic and continental crust differ?
Because the oceanic crust is under water in the ocean and a continental crust is land such as the continents
What is continental and oceanic crust?
The continental crust is the land. The oceanic is under the ocean.
What forms from collision of continental crust and oceanic crust?
A basic mountain should be formed from the collision of continental crust and oceanic crustAnswerWhen an oceanic and a continental crust collide, the heavier oceanic crust tends to subduct under the lighter continental crust. Because of the collision and corresponding compression and also because of volcanism related to dehydration and melting of the subducted plate a mountain range is formed. The Andes mountain range is a, if not the, most typical example.
What does a convergant boundary form?
There are three types of convergent boundaries: Oceanic, continental, and continental-oceanic convergent boundaries. Continental-continental convergent boundaries form mountain ranges. Continental-oceanic boundaries result in subduction zones and the recycling of lithosphere. The continental side of the boundary may form a mountain range. Oceanic-oceanic form deep oceanic trenches and sometimes volcanoes.
What type of mountain form because of an oceanic plate and a continental plate colliding?
Andean
Which type of mountain form because of an oceanic plate and a continental plate colliding?
Fold mountains.
Convergent boundary with no subduction?
A convergent boundary with no subduction is a continental-continental boundary. Because oceanic crust is denser than continental crust, it is always the subducting plate in a oceanic-continental boundary. In an oceanic-oceanic boundary, one of the plates will subduct, depending on several factors. Continental plates are thicker and less dense than oceanic plates, and when they converge, they push up the area where the plates meet, forming mountain ranges (note that this is not the only, or even the predominant, method of mountain formation). The Himalayas are being formed as a result of a continental-continental boundary.
When oceanic plates collide with continental plates the oceanic plate goes under the continental plate because?
The oceanic plate subduct under the continental because oceanic is made from basalt(rock) which is denser than andesite and granite(continental)
Is Japan continental continental oceanic oceanic or continental oceanic?
Oceanic-Oceanic.
What mountain range has an oceanic plate and continental plate colliding?
Fold mountains.
Why are oceanic plates lower than continental plates?
Because continental plates are denser than oceanic. That is why oceanic and continental plates cause subduction zones.
How did Alfred Wegener explain mountain formations?
He said that it was due to plate tectonics, a theory which he is famous for. Two plates, either continental-continental, oceanic-continental or oceanic-oceanic collide at plate boundaries, causing an uplift of land. The oceanic plate or the denser plate will subduct. These uplifts will result in the formation of mountains, mountain ranges, volcanoes and islands.
Explain how a mountain range can be formed by an oceanic plate and a continental plate?
A mountain range can be formed by the collision of an oceanic plate and a continental plate. This creates a subduction zone which eventually leads to the formation of a range of mountains.
When a continental plate and an oceanic plate collide why does the oceanic plate sink below the continental plate?
It's because the oceanic plate is more dense than the continental plate.
