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What type of mountains form at convegent boundaries where two oceanic plates meet?
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What type os mountains form at convergent boundaries where two oceanic plates meet?
continental arc
Are mountains created when two plates collide?
Mountain building (orogenesis) normally occurs at convergent plate boundaries where plates are moving towards each other. However at divergent boundaries there is a possibility for the formation of horst and graben structures where the tensile stresses cause down thrown blocks of crust to occur bordered by up thrown blocks of crust (horst) which may appear to be mountains.
What types of boundaries have subduction zones?
Convergent boundaries can form between two oceanic plates, between one oceanic plate and one continental plate, or between two continental plates.
When are mountains most likely to form at a convergent boundary?
When two continental plates collide or a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate.
How do divergent boundaries of oceanic crust form islands?
Collisions of plates
What types of mountains form at convergent boundaries where two oceanic plates meet?
volcanic mountains
What type of mountains form at convergent boundaries where to oceanic plates meet?
When two continental plates converge, it results in formation of high mountains such as the Himalayan mountain.
What type os mountains form at convergent boundaries where two oceanic plates meet?
continental arc
Convergent boundaries can be divided into 3 categories what are these categories and what geological feature are created by each?
The categories are a continental and a continental plate colliding, continental and oceanic plates colliding, and oceanic and oceanic plates colliding. The two continental plates form mountains. The continental and oceanic plated colliding cause subduction zones and volcanoes. Oceanic and oceanic plates colliding form a trench.
Where do oceanic and continetal plates meet?
At plate boundaries.
Are mountains created when two plates collide?
Mountain building (orogenesis) normally occurs at convergent plate boundaries where plates are moving towards each other. However at divergent boundaries there is a possibility for the formation of horst and graben structures where the tensile stresses cause down thrown blocks of crust to occur bordered by up thrown blocks of crust (horst) which may appear to be mountains.
How are divergent plates different from convergent plates?
Divergent Boundaries happen when two plates (oceanic or contental) begin to diverge, or move apart. Convergent Boundaries occur when two plates (again, oceanic or contential) begin to converge or move apart
What are the types of collisions that happen at convergent boundaries?
Subduction (where one plate is forced beneath another less dense plate - may occur at oceanic-oceanic and oceanic-continental boundaries), obduction (where oceanic plate is forced over a continental plate) and orogenesis where two continental plates collide and mountains are formed (e.g. the Himalayas).
What types of boundaries have subduction zones?
Convergent boundaries can form between two oceanic plates, between one oceanic plate and one continental plate, or between two continental plates.
What feature forms at diverging oceanic plates?
Ridges of buoyant oceanic crust form at diverging oceanic plate boundaries.
When are mountains most likely to form at a convergent boundary?
When two continental plates collide or a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate.
How do divergent boundaries of oceanic crust form islands?
Collisions of plates
