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Describe what happens when a plate carrying oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust.

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Subduction occurs and a trench is formed.

Step-by-step explanation:

  • When a tectonic plate carrying an oceanic crust collides with a tectonic plate carrying a continental crust then the oceanic plate will slide beneath the continental one, forming a trench.
  • This is possible because the oceanic crust is less dense than the continental crust.

Subduction is a geological phenomenon in which the tectonic plates of one crustal plate descends below the edge of the other. The region where this happens is called a subduction zone.

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