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What is the name of the process where ocean crust sinks back toward the mantle?
It is called subduction and only occurs in oceanic to oceanic or oceanic to continental plate collisions.
The process of an oceanic plate colliding with and descending underneath a continental plate?
The oceanic crust is subducted underneath the continental crust. This process is known as subduction.
What is the process called when the oceanic floor sinks into a trench and back into the mantel?
This is known as subduction.
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 is the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath the trenches?
Subduction.
What is the process by which new oceanic lithosphere is created as older materials are pulled away?
The subduction process
What process is evident at oceanic trenches?
subduction, which is when one tectonic plate is pushed down beneath another tectonic plate.
The process of an oceanic plate colliding with descending underneath a continental plate?
The answer is 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.
The process of an oceanic plate colliding with and decending underneath a continental plate?
This is known as subduction.
What are two kinds of crust involved in a subduction zone?
Both continental and oceanic crusts are used in the process of subduction, unless you are talking about see floor spreading, then only oceanic crust is used
Want to continental plate in an oceanic plate Clyde the oceanic plate will be pushed down into the mental melted in a process called what?
Subduction
