Question

Research has concluded that the "key ingredient" to the creation of new continental crust is

Answer 1

The options are

A.the freezing of subducting oceanic crust located in a subduction zone

B.the melting of converging oceanic crust located in a subduction zone

C.the melting of subducting oceanic crust located in a subduction zone

D.the freezing of converging oceanic crust located in a subduction zone

The answer is B. the melting of converging oceanic crust located in a subduction zone

Magma in the earth undergoes transformation to a new crust through the burning of the oceanic plate.

The oceanic plate is created by a subduction zone which recycles all the material in the crust of the earth and results in the formation of the newer plates below.