At mid-ocean ridges, such as the Atlantic Rise and Pacific Rise. As two plates move apart the crust is stretched and thinned, causing less pressure on the mantle immediately below. Due to this drop in pressure the mantle undergoes "decompressional melting" allowing magma to form. This magma is less dense than the surrounding mantle and rises at the mid-ocean ridges, cooling and forming new oceanic crust.
Oceanic crust will eventually turn to magma as it slides under another moving plate
The mantle rock descending from the oceanic crust causes the water in oceanic crust to be released. This lowers the melting point of the rock and causes it to melt.
oceanic crust.
Oceanic crust is significantly denser.
Ocean trenches were discovered as a sign of destructive plate margins. These plate margins cause oceanic crust to subduct below the continental crust at the oceanic-continental boundary, and force the oceanic crust to move down into the Earth's mantle and melt into basaltic magma. As this is happening, magma at oceanic ridges is creating new oceanic crust at the mid-oceanic ridges. Overall, these two processes cancel each other out and so the total amount of oceanic crust is staying aproximately the same. Therefore the Earth is not growing. Hope this helps :)
When comparing an oceanic crust and a landform crust, the oceanic crust will be much younger. Typically, an oceanic crust is less than 200 million years old.
The mantle rock descending from the oceanic crust causes the water in oceanic crust to be released. This lowers the melting point of the rock and causes it to melt.
Yes, that is the reason oceanic crust is at a lower elevation compared to continental crust. Oceanic crust sub-ducts under the less dense continental crust. Continental crust is much older than oceanic crust, because oceanic crust is constantly being destroyed and created.
oceanic crust.
No, the oceanic crust is denser. That's why the land areas "float" so much higher than the ocean bedrock.
Oceanic crust sinking under a plate with continental crust
At some points, the oceanic crust bends downward and forms a deep-ocean trench. Then the oceanic crust sinks back into the mantle through a process called subduction.
the oceanic crust is 0.
Oceanic crust is mafic.
Oceanic crust is significantly denser.
The youngest parts of the Earth's crust are found in the oceanic crust. This crust is continuously being created at the mid-oceanic ridges.
Continental crust.
oceanic crust