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What happens when a tectonic plate carrying a terrane subducts under a plate made of continental crust

What happens when a tectonic plate carrying a terrane subducts under a plate made of continental crust
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What happens when a tectonic plate carrying a terrane subducts under a plate

made of continental crust

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the terrane is scraped off of the subducting plate and becomes part of the continent.

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