If two large plates collide and suture together, and a small minor plate gets trapped between them, what would happen to the minor plate? Would it continually fall underneath one and get regenerated by a divergent plate boundary on the other side, creating impossibly high mountains, would it be replaced with the larger plate as it recedes beneath, would it simply fuse to the larger plate, or something else?
Earth Sciences
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Biology
Biology
I saw on Wikipedia. It shows where on Earth there are the most light-eating creatures (so plants and algae, I guess). I immediately noticed that in the open ocean, there's a band of algae going across the equator, and a lot going on the poles, but the ocean is weirdly empty in between. Why is that? Wouldn't it make more sense for there to be light-eating things closer to where the sun is?