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Dense oceanic crust slides under less dense continental crust

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What happens to the crust during subduction?

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What happens during a convergent boundary and what usually forms?

At a convergence boundary during collision of two plates there could either be Subduction or Outcropping. Subduction occurs when the collision involves plates of different types and densities while the other happens when it involves similar plate types. Mountain ranges are formed, also Subduction Zones gives rise to Trenches.


What happens in an ocean trench?

Subduction


What happens during subduction of earth?

During subduction, one tectonic plate moves beneath another into the Earth's mantle. This process can cause earthquakes, volcanic activity, and the formation of mountain ranges. Subduction also plays a key role in the recycling of Earth's crust and the movement of material and heat within the planet.


What happens at colliding boundries?

subduction happens and mountains and volcanoes form


what happens to a convergent boundary?

a subduction zone forms


What is it called when two plates slide one under the other?

It is known as subduction.


What happens when a tectonic plate gets subduction?

they will form a mountain


A constructive activity that happens where two plates because subduction?

Volcano


What happens when plates collide but no subduction occurs?

they hug each other


What happens during subduction important to rock cycle?

During subduction, one tectonic plate moves beneath another into the mantle. This process can cause melting of the descending plate, leading to the formation of magma. This magma can then rise to the surface through volcanic activity, contributing to the formation of new igneous rocks and completing the rock cycle.


What forms during oceanic-subduction?

Rift valleys