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

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Answer: The correct answer is C. Some oceanic crust is consumed into the mantle.

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The oceanic crust is known to be more dense than the continental crust. When a plate carrying an oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust, the plate carrying continental crust becomes unable to sink under the more dense plate of oceanic crust. As a result, the plate of continental crust sinks beneath the plate of oceanic current and the process of subduction occurs.

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