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Meaning of "subduction"

subduction (noun): The process of one tectonic plate moving under another tectonic plate, typically in the earth's lithosphere. It is a geological phenomenon that often leads to the formation of volcanic arcs and earthquakes
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  • The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
  • The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
  • The act of subducting or taking away.
  • Arithmetical subtraction.

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Subduction usually occurs at convergent fault lines.
Pangaea was surrounded by massive subduction plate tectonics.
Subduction takes place at convergent plate boundaries.
This forms what is called a subduction zone.
Subduction zones where tectonic plates converge.
Etna is a shield volcano in a subduction zone setting.
Subduction zones happen where plates collide.
Regions where it occurs are known as subduction zones.
Subduction occurs where two tectonic plates collide.
One of them is directly related to subduction zones.
Subduction zones are marked by oceanic trenches.
Andesite volcanoes are very common at subduction zones.
Subduction is the ultimate fate of all ocean crust.
This could have happened in a subduction zone.
Subduction zones are one of three plate boundary types.

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The direction of subduction system changes.
Subduction is the process that happens at convergent boundaries.
Another proposed cause was subduction of thickened oceanic crust.
Subduction and water by subduction into the mantle.
Generally the motion of subduction is from outer to inner.
Subduction is the main reason tectonic plates move.
But the date when subduction began is controversial.
Thus we will be able to understand the process of subduction.
Volcanoes in subduction zones are typically explosive.
This geological process is called subduction.
These are the big subduction zones of the world.
The earthquake was caused by a rupture of the subduction interface.
Erosion nor subduction are constant processes.
The transport of water in subduction zones.
Order of subduction control the geometry of divergent doubled subduction.
The earthquake was caused by subduction and triggered a series of.
These supercontinents are surrounded on all sides by subduction zones.
They are called subduction volcanoes.
This subduction process is not accompanied by much earthquake activity.
This diagram shows some subduction over here.
The subduction then stops.
It is a triple junction and three subduction zones are involved.
Subduction resulted in blueschist metamorphism.
The volcanism records yet another subduction zone.
The deep subduction zone.
Stratovolcanoes are a common feature of subduction zones.
The active subduction zones.
Subduction and basins development.
Continental versus oceanic subduction zones.
Subduction zones produce the largest earthquakes in the world.
Volcanoes may be formed at subduction zones.
Not all subduction zones are fed by large amounts of sediments.
Plate area is reduced along the subduction zone.
Subduction zones produce the biggest earthquakes on the planet.
The volcanoes are the result of the subduction process.

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