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mantle material
→ subducted plate causes ________ to melt, forms magma, rise through fractures in earth crust.
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Pacific plate
________ and philippines plate formed mariana trench and mariana islands.
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→ tensional force causes
________ land masses around central block to subside, formed between pair of parallel faults.
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mid
atlantic ridge formed between north american and eurasian plate
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divergent oceanic oceanic
mid-atlantic ridge, formed by north american plate and eurasion plate
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divergent continental continental
east afrian rift, nubian boundary and somalian boundary of afrian plate
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→lava flows out onto sea floor, cools and solidifies, process
sea floor spreading
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→ volcanic islands
grow above sea level
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convergent oceanic oceanic
mariana trench, mariana islands, pacific plate and philippine plate
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convergent oceanic continental
sunda trench, barisan montains, australian plate, eurasian plate
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convergent continental continental
himalayas, indian plate, eurasian plate
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transform plate
san andres fault, pacific plate, north amercia plate
