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What happens when oceanic crust collides with continental crust at a plate boundary?​

What happens when oceanic crust collides with continental crust at a plate boundary?​
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What happens when oceanic crust collides with continental crust at a plate boundary?​

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When they collide the thinner and more dense oceanic plate is overridden by the thicker and less dense continental plate.
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