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What is Conservative margin?
A conservative margin is when two plates are moving past eachother. However as they often can, they stick. The release of the two plates sticking creates pressure, which means severe earthquakes. But...
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What is a conservative margin?
A conservative margin is when two plates try to slide past each other. When the two plates stick together, it builds up lots of pressure and when it is released, it creates severe earthquakes. (This...
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What is a destructive margin?
A destructive margin is when the oceanic crust moves towards the continental crust and slip under it (oceanic crust is heavier than the continental crust). This can build up a lot of pressure between...
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What happens at a destructive margin?
A destructive margin is where to plates move towards each other and the oceanic crust moves under the Continental crust because it is denser.
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What happens at a destructive plate margin?
At a destructive margin an oceanic plate moves towards (and disappears into the mantle of) a continental plate or another oceanic plate. This is the subduction zone. As it is forced downwards,...