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kumpel [21]
3 years ago
9

The area where one plate sinks into the asthenosphere underneath another plate is known as

Geography
2 answers:
Goryan [66]3 years ago
8 0
Subduction zone.....This is usually an oceanic plate being subducted beneath a contenental plate as oceanic is less dense.
Readme [11.4K]3 years ago
5 0

a piece of continental crust and a piece of oceanic crust meeting at a convergent boundary

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