- construct.
Geology makes to
subduct into an
intransitive verb and a
reflexive verb. The
lower plate itself is the subject. It
subducts, in the
sense of retreat...
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Plate subducts beneath the
continental South American Plate at the Peru–Chile Trench. Just
north of the
Nazca Plate, the
oceanic Cocos Plate subducts under...
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lithosphere and
continental lithosphere collide, the
dense oceanic lithosphere subducts beneath the less
dense continental lithosphere. An
accretionary wedge forms...
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Plate which carries the
Mariana Islands. To the east, the
Pacific Plate subducts beneath the
Philippine Sea
Plate at the Izu–Ogasawara Trench. To the south...
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crust subducts beneath other oceanic crust on an
adjacent plate,
creating a
volcanic island arc.
continental arcs form when
oceanic crust subducts beneath...
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oceanic Farallon plate moving terranes onto the
continental margin as it
subducts under the continent.
However this
simple model was
unable to
explain many...
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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...
- the ****an
Trench megathrust. In
North America, the Juan de Fuca
Plate subducts under the
North American Plate,
creating the
Cascadia subduction zone from...
- ****ociated with
moderately to
heavily sedimented trenches. As the slab
subducts,
sediments are "bulldozed" onto the edge of the
overriding plate, producing...
- Simultaneously, the vast
Tethyn oceanic crust, to its northeast,
began to
subduct under the
Eurasian plate.
These dual processes,
driven by
convection in...
