Subduction

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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'
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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
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