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3 August, 00:36

Which of the following describes how and where a trench forms in a plate setting

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  1. 3 August, 01:27
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    A trench forms in an underwater subduction zone, often near continental boundaries.

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    Trenches are often found close to continents because of the subduction boundaries in which a plate made of oceanic crust slides underneath a less dense plate made of continental crust. The downward movement of the denser oceanic plate causes the formation of a deep underwater chasm. It is important to note that near divergent oceanic plate boundaries, the separating plates form an underwater ridge, not a trench.
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