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When does a plate carrying continental crust converges with a plate carrying oceanic crust?
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The oceanic plates gets subducted or goes under the continental plate
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What features are commonly formed at the plate boundaries where continental crust converges with oceanic crust?
trench..............................
Which feature is commonly formed at a plate boundary where oceanic crust converges with continental crust?
2.) an ocean trench
What crust is older in years the continental or the oceanic?
Continental crust is far older than oceanic crust.
What happens when more dense oceanic crust of Nazca Plate converges with the less dense continental crust of the south America Plate?
The more dense oceanic crust will submerge below the less dense South American plate. This submergence leads to the melting of the oceanic crust and the production of magma that fuels the Andes Volcanic range.
What are four differences between the oceanic crust and the continental crust?
1. The Oceanic crust is dense while the Continental crust is relatively lighter. 2. The Oceanic crust consists of Silicon and Magnessium, while the Continental crust has Silicon and Alluminium. 3. The Oceanic crust is thin, while the Continental crust is thick. 4. The Oceanic crust makes up the ocean floor, while the Continental crust carries the continents.
What features are commonly formed at the plate boundaries where continental crust converges with oceanic crust?
trench..............................
Which feature is commonly formed at a plate boundary where oceanic crust converges with continental crust?
2.) an ocean trench
What happens when a plate carrying oceanic oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust?
The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.
What happen when a plate carrying oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust?
The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.
What happens when a plate carrying oceanic crust collided with a plate carrying continental?
The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.
Which features are commonly formed at the plate boundaries where continental crust converges with oceanic crust?
large vocanic muontain ranges parallel to the coast at the center of the coast
What happens when a plate Carrying oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crusts?
The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.
If two continental plates converge a subduction zone forms?
False! When two continental plates converge a mountain range is formed. This is what formed and is continuing to "build" the Himalayan mountain chain.Subduction zones form where oceanic crust converges with and is forced under continental crust, or younger more buoyant oceanic crust.
Where does the oceanic crust begin?
The continental shelf is normally made out of continental crust, the oceanic crust begins at the base of the continental rise. However in most places the oceanic crust near the continental margins is covered by continental sediments (eroded form the continents) carried down onto the Oceanic planes by deep sea canyons running off the continental rises.
Oceanic crust is lighter than the continental crust?
No, the oceanic crust is denser. That's why the land areas "float" so much higher than the ocean bedrock.
Oceanic crust is what than continental crust?
Oceanic crust is thinner and denser than continental crust.
What is older the oceanic crust or the continental crust?
Continental crust is far older than oceanic crust.
