Geography · Plate Tectonics
Rigid lithospheric slabs are known as 'plates'. What happens when a denser oceanic plate collides with a less dense continental plate?
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- 1The oceanic plate will be forced below the continental plate✓
- 2The continental plate will be forced below the oceanic plate
- 3Both plates will uplift equally without subduction
- 4The oceanic and continental plates will never touch each other
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The oceanic plate will be forced below the continental plate
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