subduction

How To Use subduction In A Sentence

• Both features are characteristic of calc-alkaline magmas erupted in subduction-related volcanic arc environments.
• It is a fault line where a basaltic oceanic plate grinds against a continental plate and dives into the hot core of the earth - a subduction zone.
• Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.
• These rocks are interpreted as a forearc succession that developed in association with north-directed subduction beneath the Lhasa terrane.
• They are interpreted to have been derived from subduction modified lithospheric and asthenospheric mantle sources.
• It is a fault line where a basaltic oceanic plate grinds against a continental plate and dives into the hot core of the earth - a subduction zone.
• The prevalence of Late Jurassic subduction-related igneous rocks indicates that arc formation and accretion orogeny were the most important processes during the evolution of this part of the Internal Hellenides.
• This appears to contradict evidence from other areas, particularly Wales where subduction-related volcanism occurs in the late Tremadoc.
• When convergence rate and subduction rate differ, the trench migrates with respect to a fixed point in the overriding plate interior.
• The previously existing subduction zone is converted into a suture zone marking where the two continents are welded together.