continental plate
Americannoun
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Subduction is the process of an oceanic tectonic plate running into a continental plate and sliding beneath it.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2024
Pakistan and the region, which sit along an active continental plate boundary, are often hit by earthquakes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
When the mine was first discovered, most geologists thought that searching for diamonds along continental plate boundaries—which are often uplifted by ancient mountain belts and buried beneath soil and sand—was futile.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2023
Where a hotspot is found under a continental plate, contact with the hot mafic magma may cause the overlying felsic rock to melt and mix with the mafic material below, forming intermediate magma.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
As the continents bumped and nudged, sometimes one continental plate would slide over another, pushing ocean floor before it, reworking the landscape for 150 miles or more inland.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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