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What term is used to describe the location where sinking of a plate occurs?
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subduction zone
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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 One plate sinking under another?
Subduction
One plate sinking beneath another?
Subduction
A denser plate sinking under a less dense plate is called what?
If you are talking about plate tectonics, the action you're referring to is called subduction.
Evidence of plate movement occurs at plate?
Plate boundaries
What is the location where sinking of a plate occurs is called?
squat-thrust
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 occurs at a dee-ocean?
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What type of boundary occurs where two plates move together causing one plate to descend in to the mantle beneath the other plate?
You describe a subduction zone.
What is a plate sinking beneth another?
Subduction.
What is One plate sinking under another?
Subduction
One plate sinking beneath another?
Subduction
When an oceanic plate moves under another plate the bending of the sinking plate creates a?
this is a destructive plate boundary. An earthquake and a vocano is created
What is the geographical location of the mountains Describe them briefly?
Mountains usually occur at the boundary between two of the Earth's tectonic plates that are colliding. This occurs famously in India/Pakistan where the Indian subcontinent is moving north into the Asian plate forming the Himalayan mountain chain.
What are happening to the earths plates in Japan Trench?
The pacific oceanic plate is sinking beneath conential plate
A denser plate sinking under a less dense plate is called what?
If you are talking about plate tectonics, the action you're referring to is called subduction.
Where does elongation of bone occurs?
it occurs at the epiphyseal plate
