GEOLOGY

EARTH SCIENCE

TECTONICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When two plates collide and one plate slips below the other and down into the mantle.
A
Subduction
B
Erosion
C
Deposition
D
Convection
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Plates Subduct When an ocean plate collides with another ocean plate or with a plate carrying continents, one plate will bend and slide under the other. This process is called subduction. A deep ocean trench forms at this subduction boundary.

Detailed explanation-2: -If two tectonic plates collide, they form a convergent plate boundary. Usually, one of the converging plates will move beneath the other, a process known as subduction. Deep trenches are features often formed where tectonic plates are being subducted and earthquakes are common at subduction zones as well.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most geologically active regions on Earth are where plates collide. When two oceanic plates converge, the cooler, denser one descends, or subducts, beneath the overriding plate and sinks into the mantle. When an oceanic plate meets a plate with a continent riding atop it, the oceanic plate is again subducted.

Detailed explanation-4: -When oceanic or continental plates slide past each other in opposite directions, or move in the same direction but at different speeds, a transform fault boundary is formed. No new crust is created or subducted, and no volcanoes form, but earthquakes occur along the fault.

Detailed explanation-5: -Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth’s mantle at convergent boundaries.

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