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How big is the indo-australian plate?
No, it is not an oceanic plate. It is a continental plate but with oceanic crust. Crust is different from plate. A plate is made up of many crust. The crust under the ocean is oceanic crust, while the crust where continent is found is called continental crust. Most of the plates are made up off both continental and oceanic crust. If a plate has continental crusts, then it is a continental plate. Only if a plate is all made up of oceanic crusts, meaning that there is no land on it, then the plate is called oceanic plate. In the world, the major oceanic plates include Pacific Plate, Nazca Plate, Cocos Plate and Philippines Plate. Other are all continental plate.
What happens when a tectonic plate carring a terrane subducts under a plate made of continental crust?
When a tectonic plate carrying a terrane subducts under a plate made of continental crust, the terrane can get added to the continental crust through accretion. This process can thicken the continental crust and lead to mountain building and the formation of new geological features. Over time, the terrane becomes integrated into the continental crust through tectonic processes.
What This layer of the crust is made of granite?
The layer of the crust that is made of granite is called the continental crust. It is thicker and less dense compared to the oceanic crust, which is made of basalt. The continental crust is primarily composed of granite and covers the Earth's continents.
What layer of the crust is made of granite.?
continental crust
Give the name of one plate that contains mostly oceanic lithosphere and of one plate that continenmental litosphere?
One plate that contains mostly oceanic lithosphere is the Pacific Plate, which is predominantly made up of oceanic crust. One plate that contains mostly continental lithosphere is the North American Plate, which consists mainly of continental crust. These distinctions are based on the composition and thickness of the lithosphere in each plate.
Is the African plate continental or oceanic?
The African plate is primarily continental, as it is made up of large landmasses like Africa and parts of the oceanic crust beneath the surrounding oceans.
Name a plate that is entirely made of continental crust?
All major plates contain both continental and oceanic crust except for the Pacific and Nazca plates.
How big is the indo-australian plate?
No, it is not an oceanic plate. It is a continental plate but with oceanic crust. Crust is different from plate. A plate is made up of many crust. The crust under the ocean is oceanic crust, while the crust where continent is found is called continental crust. Most of the plates are made up off both continental and oceanic crust. If a plate has continental crusts, then it is a continental plate. Only if a plate is all made up of oceanic crusts, meaning that there is no land on it, then the plate is called oceanic plate. In the world, the major oceanic plates include Pacific Plate, Nazca Plate, Cocos Plate and Philippines Plate. Other are all continental plate.
What happens when a tectonic plate carring a terrane subducts under a plate made of continental crust?
When a tectonic plate carrying a terrane subducts under a plate made of continental crust, the terrane can get added to the continental crust through accretion. This process can thicken the continental crust and lead to mountain building and the formation of new geological features. Over time, the terrane becomes integrated into the continental crust through tectonic processes.
What happens with a plate of oceanic crust collides with a plate of continental crust?
The oceanic plate is made of denser (and thinner) rock than the continental crust, so the oceanic plate gets subducted (pushed underneath) where it descends and gets melted by geothermal heat.
Does Mt Fuji have oceanic crust continental crust or both?
Mount Fuji sits on the Eurasian tectonic plate, which is made up of continental crust. Therefore, Mount Fuji rests on continental crust, not oceanic crust.
What are two differences between the oceanic crust and the continental crust?
The oceanic crust consists of heavier rock, mostly Basalt, so that if a oceanic plate collides with a continental plate the oceanic plate will be forced down below the continental plate, forming island arcs.continental plates are thicker than oceanic plates.
What happens when a plate made of oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust?
The contiental cdrust is forced under the continental crust in a process called subduction.
What is a destructive plate boundry?
this is when one made up of continental crust and one made up of oceanic crust move towards eachother.
What is two differences between the continental crust and oceanic crust?
The oceanic plate is thin, dense, and makes up the ocean floor. The continental plate is less-dense, thick, and make up the continents.
Is the antarctic plate an oceanic or continental plate?
The Antarctic Plate is mostly a continental plate, as it is made up of continental crust beneath the ice. However, in the region where it interacts with the surrounding oceanic plates, it can also have some oceanic characteristics.
What happens when a plate of oceanic crust collides with a plate of oceanic crust?
The oceanic plate is made of denser (and thinner) rock than the continental crust, so the oceanic plate gets subducted (pushed underneath) where it descends and gets melted by geothermal heat.
