subduction in A Sentence

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    The Cascadia Subduction zone.

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    It's extraordinarily quiet when you compare it to other Subduction zones globally,” Toomey said in an interview.

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    Subduction zones, where one chunk of crust is forced under another, are the drivers of continental break-up, Coltice said.

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    Most geologists believe that during the Hadean and Archaean, Subduction zones were more common, and therefore tectonic plates were smaller.

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    The Eurasian Plate, Pacific Plate and Indo-Australian Plate are three active tectonic plates that cause the Subduction zones that form these volcanoes.

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    Subduction happens when one plates touches toward another, move beneath it and plunges as much as several hundred kilometres into earth interior.

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    In a Subduction zone, the subducting plate moves beneath the other plate, which can be made of either oceanic or continental crust.

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    Then, about 40 million(M) years ago, the Pacific plate stopped crashing into the North American continent and the Farallon Subduction slab started to founder.

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    In a Subduction zone, the subducting plate, which is normally a plate with oceanic crust, moves beneath the other plate, which can be made of either oceanic or continental crust.

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    Oceanic crust is created at spreading centers, and this, along with Subduction, drives the system of plates in a chaotic manner, resulting in continuous orogeny and areas of isostatic imbalance.

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    This would likely have happened through a process called deep Subduction, where the boundary of an oceanic tectonic plate(about 100km thick) fails, and the plate then collapses into the deep earth's mantle.

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    Largely lacking in volcanic activity, the Leeward Antilles island arc occurs along the deformed southern edge of the Caribbean Plate and was formed by the plate's Subduction under the South American Plate.

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    In addition to the boron example above, evidence from other diamond mine sites also supports the idea that Earth elements move from relatively shallow to deeper into the Earth through the process of Subduction.

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    However, Kioka said, Subduction zones like the Japan Trench might give carbon sediments a relatively quick path into the Earth's interior, where they may eventually be released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide during volcanic eruptions.

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    Earth's oceanic crust is continually recycled by Subduction at the boundaries of tectonic plates, and has an average age of about 100 million years, whereas the Venusian surface is estimated to be 300-600 million years old.

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