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please help me i have a test tommorow!!

2006-11-09 07:24:33 · 3 answers · asked by angie s 2 in Science & Mathematics Earth Sciences & Geology

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I think its called 'subduction', where one tectonic plate goes under another. It occurs at 'subduction zones', such as on the west coast of the United States. The reason it occurs is that one plate is expanding and the edges need to go somewhere (under another plate). For example, the Atlantic plate is expanding from the center because there is a north-to-south line of underwater volcanoes, spewing out magma and forcing the 2 halves of the plate apart to the west and east.

2006-11-09 07:26:51 · answer #1 · answered by ricochet 5 · 0 0

the respond is subduction. Subduction is the approach the place crust of a decrease density 'subducts' below a bigger density component of crust, the place it is going into the mantle. as quickly as interior the mantle, it melts, and that makes new crust as quickly because it is pushed out of a volcano by a hotspot, out of an ocean trench, ect. surely, it ought to be a million or 3 in case you think of roughly it, by way of fact basalt (oceanic crust) subducts below granite (continental crust). i could positioned 3. Volcanism. Your determination. To quantity 17, it relies upon on if the decrease off section specifies the retaining technique or the introduction of latest continental crust. like the "Monk" %, via the way.

2016-12-14 04:26:14 · answer #2 · answered by vogt 4 · 0 0

At subduction zones.
That's where one continental (tectonic) plate pushes under another one.

2006-11-09 07:26:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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