54.8k views
2 votes
The area where one plate sinks into the asthenosphere underneath another plate is known as

a subduction zone
an earthquake boundary
a convection zone
a transform boundary

User Themaestro
by
7.9k points

2 Answers

4 votes

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

User Cory Price
by
7.7k points
1 vote
Subduction zone.....This is usually an oceanic plate being subducted beneath a contenental plate as oceanic is less dense.
User DataDino
by
8.1k points