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Subduction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In geology, subduction is the process that takes place at convergent boundaries by which one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate, sinking into the Earth's mantle, as the plates converg...
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Cascadia subduction zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Cascadia subduction zone (also referred to as the Cascadia fault ) is a subduction zone, a type of convergent plate boundary that stretches from northern Vancouver Island to northern Californi...
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When this happens, subduction terminates along the collision zone, the trench disappears, and the continents collide, resulting in the birth of a new mountain range. ... Volcanic Island Arcs form at subduction zones...
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Subduction Zone Studies ... In places these are separated by non-rigid (deforming) zones. Elsewhere plate boundaries of three types exist: divergent or spreading (e.g., mid-oceanic ridges), convergent (e.g., subduction zones), and strike-slip (e.g., the San Andreas fault zone in California or oceanic transform faults).
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In the immense furnace of a subduction zone, the denser plate plunges beneath its neighbor, and portions of it may be melted by the intense heat generated within the mantle, turning the solid rock of the crust into molten magma.
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This process is called subduction. The slab that is forced back into the Earth usually undergoes melting when the edges get to a depth which is hot enough. (A temperature hot enough to melt lithosphere is about a thousand degrees!). This process is called "subduction".
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