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When an oceanic plate and a continental plate collide, what is the resulting feature?

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it could form a trench, or a mountain range, or one plate could subduct beneath another and the other "floating" on top.

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oceanic plate crust is thinner and denser than continental crust, so the thinner oceanic crust gets bent and pulled under the continental crust. this creates a subtraction zone.
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