Assertion: oceanic crust | /r/HasProperty | subducted
Facets:
value: beneath the continental crust
type: LOCATION
value: back into the mantle
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: constantly
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The oceanic crust, being denser than continental crust, is constantly being subducted —
text: This causes the oceanic crust to be subducted back into the mantle and melt, reducing the size of the crust.
text: When the e plates collide, the oceanic crust is subducted beneath the continental crust, This type of collision produces a larg scale deformation of rock that high mountains are pushed up, in addition, the subduction of the oceanic crust causes partial melting of overlying mantle material, producing the magma that might eventually erupt and form volcani mountains of the earths surface.