subduction (Crossword)
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- An act or instance of subducting
- Geologic process
- Geological process
- Subtraction or withdrawal
- The process of one lithospheric plate descending beneath another
Definitions of “subduction”
If the answer you seek is not in the answers above these definitions may help solving your crossword puzzle.• The act of subducting or taking away
• The process of one lithospheric plate descending beneath another
• Subduction The action of subduing or fact of being subdued
• Subsidence of the leading edge of a lithospheric plate into the mantle
• A geologic process in which one edge of one crustal plate is forced below the edge of another
• The sinking of an oceanic plate edge as a result of convergence with a plate of lesser density
• Subduction. The process of the oceanic lithosphere colliding with and descending beneath the continental lithosphere
• Credit: U.S. Geological Survey The process describing when one lithospheric plate collides with and is overridden by
• The process by which collision of the earth's crustal plates results in one plate's being drawn down or overridden by another
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