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maxonik [38]
3 years ago
10

Research has concluded that the "key ingredient" to the creation of new continental crust is

Geography
1 answer:
marin [14]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

The options are

A.the freezing of subducting oceanic crust located in a subduction zone

B.the melting of converging oceanic crust located in a subduction zone

C.the melting of subducting oceanic crust located in a subduction zone

D.the freezing of converging oceanic crust located in a subduction zone

The answer is B. the melting of converging oceanic crust located in a subduction zone

Magma in the earth undergoes transformation to a new crust through the burning of the oceanic plate.

The oceanic plate is created by a subduction zone which recycles all the material in the crust of the earth and results in the formation of the newer plates below.

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