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What happens to oceanic crust at a deep-ocean trench?

What happens to oceanic crust at a deep-ocean trench?
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What happens to oceanic crust at a deep-ocean trench?

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"It sinks into the mantle"

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The oceanic crust gets carried underneath another tectonic plate and it sinks hundreds of miles into the Earth's Mantle.
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