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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.
What term is used to describe the location where sinking of a plate occurs?
subduction zone
The location where the sinking of one plate beneath the other in a collisional boundary occurs is called a?
It is called a subduction zone.
What is the process in which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle is called?
The process in which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle is called subduction. This occurs at convergent plate boundaries, where one tectonic plate slides beneath another. Subduction zones are associated with deep-sea trenches and volcanic activity.
What geological formation often occurs at subduction zones where one tectonic plate subducts under another?
The geological formation that often occurs at subduction zones where one tectonic plate subducts under another is called a trench.
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.
What occurs at subduction zones?
Trenches
Where does subduction happen?
subduction occurs where 2 continents meet or where the tectonic plates meet. :)
Areas where earthquake occurs?
subduction zones
What occurs at convergent plate boundarie?
subduction
What term is used to describe the location where sinking of a plate occurs?
subduction zone
what is place where subduction occurs?
Where two plates collide
When Crust is destroyed.?
The Earth's crust is destroyed when subduction occurs.
The location where the sinking of one plate beneath the other in a collisional boundary occurs is called a?
It is called a subduction zone.
What is the process called when the oceanic floor sinks into a trench and back into the mantel?
The process is called subduction. Subduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries when one tectonic plate moves beneath another and sinks into the mantle. This process is crucial for the recycling of Earth's lithosphere.
What occurs when two plates collide and one of the plates dips below the other?
It is called subduction. When subduction occurs one plate slips beneath the other and sinks into the Earth's mantle and creates a trench.
When is earths Crust destroyed?
The Earth's crust is destroyed when subduction occurs.
