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.
• It appears to be clear that this activity is traveling north, and the residents of the West Coast should not panic, but in the same breath, should make sure they have proper stores of food and water, battery operated radios, and a good first-aid kit should a devastating quake hit California, or worse, if the "Cascadia Subduction Zone" or Mount Rainier, which is a "stratovolcano" and is one of the most dangerous volcanoes, except for Yellowstone's "Super Volcano" suddenly become active. Update On Earthquakes And Volcanic Activity Marching Northward
• The low - angle normal faults are subparallel to the subjacent subduction thrusts.
• They are interpreted to have been derived from subduction modified lithospheric and asthenospheric mantle sources.
• The site of this destruction is another kind of plate boundary: a subduction zone.
• 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.