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subduction::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | geologic process, geological process |
Examples of subduction
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The link between great earthquakes and the subduction of oceanic fracture zones.
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This is where rapid subduction of the Pacific Plate fuels the intense volcanism.
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They are formed by subduction of the Pacific Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate.
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With the creation of this new subduction zone, the early Appalachians were born.
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Subduction zones are common around Japan and throughout the Pacific Ocean region.
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That suggests subduction zone water makes quakes possible on such steep faults.
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These seismically active areas of subduction are known as Wadati-Benioff zones.
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Subduction dynamics and the origin of Andean orogeny and the Bolivian orocline.
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Additional sedimentation occurred until a subduction zone formed off the coast.
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- A geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
- In geology, subduction is the process that takes place at convergent boundaries by which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate, sinking into the Earth's mantle, as the plates converge. ...
- The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object
- (subduct) To push under or below; To move downwards underneath something; To remove; to deduct; to take away; to disregard
- (Sub-Duct) Describes tubes inserted into ducts through which fiber-optic cable is run.
- (subducted) one plate is pulled under another at a plate boundary, causing earthquakes, melting, volcanoes, and mountains
- Subsidence of the leading edge of a lithospheric plate into the mantle.
- The geologic process whereby one continental plate slides under another and is gradually consumed in the Earth's interior.
- Process in which a plate of dense oceanic lithosphere sinks back into Earth's interior along a dipping surface that separates it from the overriding lithosphere and asthenosphere.
