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location of volcanoes
Plate edges may be either oceanic crust or continental crust. So when plates collide, we have only three possibilities: oceanic-oceanic, oceanic-continental, or continental-continental collisions. [ Locations of Volcanoes: page ...
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Ocean Crust Geochemistry
Images Marine Operations Current projects Division staff Publications Research Development Postdoctoral Program Ocean Crust Geochemistry Research Benthic ecology Biogeochemistry Canyon processes Chemical sensors Coastal ocean ... the Earth's crust on the Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Linkages between hydrothermal, magmatic, and tectonic processes Oceanic crust is created at mid ...
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UW-ESS Research Group
Oceanography. Areas of special emphasis include processes operating at mid-ocean ridges to create oceanic crust and on continental margins to transport and accumulate sediment. Faculty Members: John Delaney Paul Johnson ...
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Marine Careers :: Ocean Drilling
Earth's tectonic processes, marine sedimentation, and the origin and evolution of oceanic crust. Investigators involved in the ODP may specialize in sedimentology (the study of matter that ... these discoveries have led to new research questions. Drilling and sampling ocean sediment and crust will remain important to the field of oceanography. ODP officials predict that the ...
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Deepest Ocean - Challenger Deep
The oceanic crust is much heavier than the continental crust so when the plates crash into each other, the oceanic plate plunges downward toward the molten mantle, while ... plates together are really intense so the underlying oceanic plate (the subducted plate) creates a trench where it drags the edge of the continental crust down as it descends underneath (check ...
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Ocean Geography | Geography of the sea floor
The pocket of exceptionally ... of the Marianas Islands in the Southeast Pacific. These are all places where oceanic plates are subducting beneath continental plates. Read about Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents... Sounding - ...
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Mountain Adventures
One that lies beneath an ocean is called an oceanic plate. As the hot melted rock in the center of the earth moves, the plates ... with an oceanic plate, the oceanic crust gets pushed down below the continental crust. This type of collision may cause volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. When two continental plates collide, the earth's crust gets compressed ...
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History of the Ocean - MarineBio.org
The continents can be thought of as thick blocks of crust floating on the mantle much as icebergs float in the water. Oceanic crust ... and dry above sea level and oceanic crust lies below sea level and is covered by water. Oceanic crust and continental crust also differ in geological age. The oldest oceanic rocks are less 200 million years ...
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Geological Makeup of Marine Environments - MarineBio.org
The discovery of the Mid-Atlantic ridge in the 1950’s ... /plate3.htm Continental crust and oceanic crust behave differently due to their varying composition, so scientists named two types of lithosphere: the continental lithosphere and the oceanic lithosphere. Oceanic lithospheres are ...
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Natural Hazards.org: Investigate: Earthquakes
Earth's crust, but they can occur almost anywhere. Although usually lasting only seconds, they can result in ... 's crust subduct (one plate slides under another plate), crumple, or grind past each other, earthquakes occur. Along the western edge of North America, oceanic crust is sliding past and diving under continental crust ...
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