Subduction
id:
subduction-176-1966221
title:
Subduction
text:
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates. Where one tectonic plate converges with a second plate, the heavier plate dives beneath the other and sinks into the mantle. A region where this process occurs is known as a subduction zone, and its surface expression is known as an arc-trench complex. The process of subduction has created most of the Earth'
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
A geological process at convergent tectonic plate boundaries where one plate moves under the other
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subduction
date created:
2002-11-10T12:18:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T14:22:18Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q176318","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q176318"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Subduction-en.svg","width":1482,"height":854}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16