If the average rate of sediment accumulation is 3 cm/1000years, how long would be required for sediments to completely bury seamounts 1.5 km high and convert part of the oceanic ridge into a part of the abyssal plains. (Show your work).

Rocks, as they are compressed, begin forming mountains above the earth's surface when two continental plates converge. the continental crust increases in depth as the mountains grow above. the himalayan mountains formed at a convergent plate boundary in this manner. the rocks are smashed together causing them to due to the intense heat and pressure from the colliding plates and eventually forming rock. a) melt; igneous b) layer; sedimentary c) recrystallize; metamorphic d) melt into the earth's interior; metamorphic