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Grace [21]
3 years ago
15

What happens when oceanic crust collides with continental crust at a plate boundary?

Geography
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Rufina [12.5K]3 years ago
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Answer:

Sometimes a plate carrying oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust. Oceanic crust is more dense than continental crust. ... Instead, subduction occurs as the oceanic plate sinks beneath the continental plate. When two plates carrying continental crust collide, subduction does not take place.

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