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subduction zone, and
fluids released by the
subducting plate trigger volcanism in the
overriding plate. If the
subducting plate sinks at a
shallow angle, the...
- crust. The
force of
gravity helps drive the
subducting slab into the mantle. As the
relatively cool
subducting slab
sinks deeper into the mantle, it is heated...
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known as a
magmatic arc: 6.2 ) is a belt of
volcanoes formed above a
subducting oceanic tectonic plate, with the belt
arranged in an arc
shape as seen...
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mountains in the Philippines.
Several of
these are volcanoes,
formed by
subducting tectonic plates surrounding the archipelago. Map all
coordinates using...
- 4 in) per year
towards the
Atlantic Ocean. The
Antarctic Plate started to
subduct beneath South America 14
million years ago in the
Miocene epoch. At first...
- Simultaneously, the vast
Tethyn oceanic crust, to its northeast,
began to
subduct under the
Eurasian plate.
These dual processes,
driven by
convection in...
- plates,
subducting under the
northern part of the
North American Plate; the
Cocos Plate subducting under Central America; and the
Nazca Plate subducting under...
-
extension in the
overriding plate, in
response to the
displacement of the
subducting slab at some
oceanic trenches. This
paradoxically results in divergence...
- Simultaneously, the vast
Tethyan oceanic crust, to its northeast,
began to
subduct under the
Eurasian Plate.
These dual processes,
driven by
convection in...
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including friction between the plates,
angle of subduction,
buoyancy of the
subducting plate, rate of subduction, and
hydration value of the
mantle material...
