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What is the process in which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle is called?
subduction is the answer.
True or false magnetic stripes on the ocean floor are places where oceanic crust sinks back to the mantle?
F
Why dont sediments accumulate everywhere?
Thick accumulations of sediment form only in regions where the surface of the Earth's lithospehere sinks as sediment collects.
When ocean plates collide with continental plates the denser ocean plate?
sinks
Precipitation that sinks into the ground is called?
Precipitation that sinks into the ground is called Groundwater.
What is the process called In which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle called?
i think that its subduction ...
How does volcanic dust become sediment in the deep-ocean basins?
The dust falls from the atmosphere over the ocean, sinks through the water column and ends up as sediments on the ocean floor.
How does volcanic dust become sediment in the deep ocean basin?
The dust falls from the atmosphere over the ocean, sinks through the water column and ends up as sediments on the ocean floor.
What happens to the ocean floor at the deep ocean trenches?
what happens is the ocean floor does not just keep spreading.instead, it sinks beneath deep underwater canyons called deep- ocean trenches
What is process the ocean floor sinks?
your answer is subduction
What is the process by which ocean floor sinks into the mantle?
subduction is the answer.
A area where water sinks through the cracks of the ocean floor is called a?
hydrothermal vent also called (white/black) smokers
What is the geological process by which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle?
subduction
How does stratification occur?
When everything from the top sinks to the ocean floor.
How are plankton sediments formed?
As plankton die, it sinks to the sea floor, and over many years, a sediment is formed.
If a mass of ocean water is cold and salty what will it do?
The cooler saltier water sinks toward the ocean floor.
When water gets denser how does it move?
I think it sinks toward the ocean floor.
