subduction
Definition
Glossary of "The Evolution of Plants (2nd ed.)" by Willis & McElwain (2014)
- A term used to describe the process when an ocean plate collides with a continental plate, causing the oceanic plate (which is carrying the heavier oceanic crust) to slide beneath the continental crust and melt into the mantle.
Glossary of "Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet (2nd ed.)" by Botkin & Keller (1998)
- A process in which one lithospheric plate descends beneath another.
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