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What happens when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?
when oceanic crust and continental crust collide, the oceanic crust sinks down beneath the continental crust. this is called subduction.
When the ocean floor collides with a crustal plate what happens?
it subducts underneath the crustal plate
What happens when plates collide and one plate sinks?
The collision of plates commonly includes "subduction", where one plate is forced under the other, down into the mantle. These plates are melted and rise again, adding to the magma under the overlying plate. This creates heated rock that can later emerge through the surface in volcanoes. Oceanic plates are thinner and denser than continental plates, so are the ones forced down, either under a continental plate or another oceanic plate.
What is formed when one tectonic plate slide under another tectonic plate?
Depends on the type of tectonic plate. If it is two continental plates, usually a mountain range will be formed and the plates will 'lock' together due to their thickness. The Indian sub-continent colliding with the eurasian plate is one example. If an oceanic plate is subducting under a continental plate an island arc can be formed or mountain range such as Japan and the Andies mountains respectively. This type is also where volcanoes will be commonly found unlike the collision of two continental plates, due to the magma formed from the subduction of the oceanic plate. If two oceanic plates collide, usually form an oceanic mountain range and lock together similar to the continental plates.
What kind of tectonic plate is the eurasian plate?
The tectonic plate under parts of Europe and Asia is a continental crustal plate.
What happens when the oceanic plate moves to the side and the oceanic plate slides past the continental plate?
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What happens when a plate slides against another plate?
it has transform boundary
What happens when sea floor plate slides into a continental plate what type of boundary wiil it make?
mountains or volcanoes will appear
When two continental plates collide sometimes one plate slides beneath the other in a process known as subduction. When one continental plate slides beneath another......?
material from the Earth's surface is returned to the interior.
When one continental plate slides under another this is formed?
When one plate slides beneath another it is said to subduct. This is called a subduction zone. However, a continental plate cannot subduct, only an oceanic plate can. When two continental plates collide the land between them is squeezed horizontally, forming mountain ranges. Eventually the continental land masses will fuse together.
What happens when a tectonic plate slides under another tectonic plate?
This happens at a plate boundary. The oceanic plate subducts (sinks) under the continental plate, because it is heavier. (the oceanic plate is made of basalt and the continental plate is made of granite.) This happens at a destructive plate margin. it is called this because part if the oceanic plate is destroyed, because it melts as it sinks.
What happens to points along the pacific ring of fire?
Various things happen along the Pacific ring of fire. In places the Pacific Plate slides alongside a Continental Plate. It does not slide smoothly but jerks. When that happens, an earthquake occurs. In other places it slides underneath a Continental Plate. That can lead to an earthquake. When it slides under land, it can lead to a volcano. When it slides under the ocean it can cause a Tsunami. In some places the plate has been still for centuries.
What happens on the San Andreas?
a continental divide and plate techtonics as one plate moves shear to another.
What is formed when a dense ocean plate slides beneath a continental plate?
A subduction zone is formed.
When one continental plate slides beneath another what happens?
Water seeps into rock cracks and dissolves minerals there. The solution travels through cracks in the rocks, eventually concentrating into large crystals."The process above is a description o
What is a plate called when it slides over another plate?
collision
Does oceanic plate melt and cause volcanoes to erupt when slides under continental plate?
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