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e-lub [12.9K]
3 years ago
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What causes the subduction zone when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate?

Geography
2 answers:
IgorC [24]3 years ago
8 0
1) because oceanic plates are denser than continental plates causing them to subduction
balu736 [363]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

This is what I know

Subduction occurs when two plates collide at a convergent boundary, and one plate is driven beneath the other, back into the Earth's interior. Not all convergence leads to subduction. Continental rocks are too buoyant to be forced downward, so when continents collide, they crumple but stay at the surface.

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