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The process in which one huge plate of the earth's crust descends beneath another plate.
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plate tectonics: as a heavy oceanic plate and a lighter continental plate collide with one another, the heavier oceanic plate slides downward and under the continental plate.
Ãâó: www.ocean-institute.org/edu_programs/materials/P/G...
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| subduction |
The process by which one tectonic plate moves beneath another.
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| subduction |
the process of one lithospheric plate descending beneath another.
Ãâó: www.tc.umn.edu/~smith213/Spring%202002%20FT.htm
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the geologic process whereby one continental plate slides under another and is gradually consumed in the Earth's interior.
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