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Noun Concept
Categories: Lithosphere, Plate tectonics, Articles with short description, Geological processes
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subduction
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A geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate WordNet 3.0
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A geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries. Wikipedia
Geological process at tectonic plate boundaries Wikidata
The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary. Wiktionary
IS A
geological process
geological process
HAS INSTANCE
Hikurangi Margin
FACET OF
tectonics
HAS EFFECT
subduction zone
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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subduction
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arc-trench complex, plate subduction, subduct, subducted, subducted plate, subducting, Subducting boundary, Subduction (geology), Subduction boundary, subduction zone, subduction zones, subducts, Zone of subduction

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