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Which of the following best explains what is happening to the oceanic crust as it is pushed below the continental crust

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The answer is subduction. In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary.

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