shimmeringiris
shimmeringiris shimmeringiris
  • 21-02-2017
  • Biology
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When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, what is the resulting feature?

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chancedale
chancedale chancedale
  • 21-02-2017
oceanic plate crust is thinner and denser than continental crust, so the thinner oceanic crust gets bent and pulled under the continental crust. this creates a subtraction zone.
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lanlostreyn lanlostreyn
  • 12-12-2018

it could form a trench, or a mountain range, or one plate could subduct beneath another and the other "floating" on top.

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