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what happens when an oceanic and continental meets

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When oceanic crust converges with continental crust, the denser oceanic plate plunges beneath the continental plate. This process, called subduction, occurs at the oceanic trenches. ... The subducting plate causes melting in the mantle above the plate. The magma rises and erupts, creating volcanoes.

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