What is Subduction? What happens when it Occurs?
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Subduction zones are plate tectonic boundaries where two plates converge, and one plate is thrust beneath the other.
Where two tectonic plates meet at a subduction zone, one bends and slides underneath the other, curving down into the mantle. (The mantle is the hotter layer under the crust.) ... At a subduction zone, the oceanic crust usually sinks into the mantle beneath lighter continental crust.
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Subduction, Latin for "carried under," is a term used for a specific type of plate interaction. It happens when one lithospheric plate meets another—that is, in convergent zones —and the denser plate sinks down into the mantle.
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