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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.
True or false magnetic stripes on the ocean floor are places where oceanic crust sinks back to the mantle?
True. Magnetic stripes on the ocean floor are created by alternating bands of magnetic polarities in the oceanic crust. These stripes are evidence of seafloor spreading where new crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges, pushing older crust away. Subduction zones are where older crust sinks back into the mantle.
An ocean trench forms when?
An ocean trench forms when one tectonic plate is forced beneath another in a process called subduction. This creates a deep, elongated depression in the ocean floor where the subducted plate descends into the Earth's mantle. Ocean trenches are often associated with volcanic activity and earthquakes due to the tectonic forces at work.
How does a seamount form?
A seamount forms through volcanic activity, where magma rises from beneath the Earth's crust to create a mountain-like structure on the ocean floor. Over time, as the volcano becomes inactive and cools, it sinks below the ocean surface but remains as a seamount.
Precipitation that sinks into the ground is called?
Precipitation that sinks into the ground is called Groundwater.
What is the process called In which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle called?
i think that its subduction ...
How does volcanic dust become sediment in the deep-ocean basins?
The dust falls from the atmosphere over the ocean, sinks through the water column and ends up as sediments on the ocean floor.
How does volcanic dust become sediment in the deep ocean basin?
The dust falls from the atmosphere over the ocean, sinks through the water column and ends up as sediments on the ocean floor.
What happens to the ocean floor at the deep ocean trenches?
what happens is the ocean floor does not just keep spreading.instead, it sinks beneath deep underwater canyons called deep- ocean trenches
What is process the ocean floor sinks?
your answer is subduction
What is the process by which ocean floor sinks into the mantle?
subduction is the answer.
A area where water sinks through the cracks of the ocean floor is called a?
hydrothermal vent also called (white/black) smokers
What is the geological process by which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle?
subduction
What is the ocean bottom called?
The deepest parts of the ocean floor are caused by plate tectonic subduction and occur where the sea floor sinks back into the mantle in a subduction zone. These areas are called deep sea trenches and the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific is the deepest known point in Earth's oceans.
If a mass of ocean water is cold and salty what will it do?
The cooler saltier water sinks toward the ocean floor.
How are plankton sediments formed?
As plankton die, it sinks to the sea floor, and over many years, a sediment is formed.
When water gets denser how does it move?
I think it sinks toward the ocean floor.
