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What happens when a plate carrying oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust?

What happens when a plate carrying oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust?
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What happens when a plate carrying oceanic crust collides with a plate carrying continental crust?

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The denser plate pushes below the other at the deep ocean trench. 
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