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Q: Why are trenches and island arcs curved?
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Are trenches related to island arcs?

no


Where can you find ocean trenches?

Ocean trenches are the deepest parts of the ocean. They border continents or island arcs where tectonic plates come together.


Which type of landforms develops at plate boundaries where one oceanic plate descends beneath another?

Ocean Trenches, Island Arcs, Volcanic Mountain Chains, Magmatic Arcs.


Which type of landforms develops plate boundaries where one oceanic plate descends beneath one another?

Ocean Trenches, Island Arcs, Volcanic Mountain Chains, Magmatic Arcs.


What is the land features that result from plate movement?

Volcanoes, Trenches, Island Arcs, Rift Valley, mountain chains, plateaus, basins.


Subduction of oceanic crust at a continental margin creates .?

Ocean trenches and Island arcs.


What are 2 geological features that can occur at plate boundaries?

What are three geographic features that may be found at plate boundaries?


What does an oceanic-oceanic convergence give rise to?

volcanic island arcs


What does volcanic island arc mean?

Volcanic arcs form at plate subduction zones. Island arcs are volcanic islands that form over "hot spots" in the Earth's mantle. Because the islands are moving with the oceanic plate, they eventually are removed from the hot spot, forming a chain of islands in the direction of the plate movement.


What forms at a subduction zone?

Volcanic arcs and oceanic trenches commonly form at subduction zones.


What has the author Arata Sugimura written?

Arata Sugimura has written: 'Island arcs: Japan and its environs' -- subject(s): Island arcs


What results from a convergent boundary?

Continental mountains, ocean trenches, volcanic mountains, volcanic islands and arcs.