When a plate carrying continental crust converges with a plate carrying oceanic crust _________.
A) the oceanic plate floats above the continental plate
B) the continental plate sinks into the mantle
C) a divergent boundary forms
D) the oceanic plate sinks beneath the continental plate and dives into the mantle
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