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Which lithospheric plate has the highest proportion of continental crust?
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Why do trenches form when oceanic crust meets continental crust?
Oceanic crust is thinner and more dense will continental crust is thicker and less dense.
Name the two types of lithospheric plates?
There are two types of lithosphere: the oceanic lithosphere and the continental lithosphere. The oceanic lithosphere exists in the ocean basins while the continental lithosphere exists in the continental crust.
What layer of the earth is composed of material of the highest density?
Oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust.
The Earth's crust includes ocean floors and?
The Earth's crust includes oceanic and continental categories, the oceanic crust composed of basalt rock and recycled in roughly 150 million year intervals by lithospheric plate movements, and the older less dense continental crust, composed of granitic rock.
What are the 2 parts of the lithospheric plates?
The crust and upper mantle
Why do trenches form when oceanic crust meets continental crust?
Oceanic crust is thinner and more dense will continental crust is thicker and less dense.
Name the two types of lithospheric plates?
There are two types of lithosphere: the oceanic lithosphere and the continental lithosphere. The oceanic lithosphere exists in the ocean basins while the continental lithosphere exists in the continental crust.
What can tectonic plates also be called instead of tectonic plates?
Tectonic plates are also "Continental Crust" and "Oceanic Crust". Also lithospheric plates.
What would be expected to result from a collision between a continental lithospheric plate and a oceanic lithospheric plate?
Typically the less dense continental plate would stay afloat while the denser oceanic plate would be submerged below. This can result in volcanic eruptions at the subduction zone due to oceanic crust undergoing increased pressure and temperatures as it descends below the continental crust.
Do lithospheric plates include both continental crust and oceanic crust?
It is possible to have continental and oceanic crust on the same plate. The only to this exception is with the Pacific plate which exists independently.
What layer of the earth is composed of material of the highest density?
Oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust.
The Earth's crust includes ocean floors and?
The Earth's crust includes oceanic and continental categories, the oceanic crust composed of basalt rock and recycled in roughly 150 million year intervals by lithospheric plate movements, and the older less dense continental crust, composed of granitic rock.
Which is thicker continental crust or oceanic crust?
Continental crust A+
What is the continental crust of the earth?
what is the continental crust
What is the top most layer of the earth's surface?
Soil is the topmost layer of the Earth's crust.
What are the 2 parts of the lithospheric plates?
The crust and upper mantle
This layer of the crust is made of granite?
continental crust
