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1. Except where subduction zones lie adjacent to mountain belts on continental margins, plate boundaries do not coincide with continental coastlines.

2. The extent of subduction of continental crust below the Himalayas is also in dispute.

3. Where two continents collide neither experiences significant subduction but some crustal thickening occurs and a mountain belt is formed.

4. Subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a plate carrying continental crust gives rise to a continental-margin orogen.

5. The previously existing subduction zone is converted into a suture zone marking where the two continents are welded together.

6. Nevertheless, unequivocal evidence for deeper subduction of sediment has proved elusive, and other explanations are possible.

7. Subduction zones are also responsible for some of the Northwest's most dramatic natural features, including Mount Rainier.

8. The plates realigned and subduction resumed, sparking volcanic activity which spewed forth the granite rock covering much of the Sierras.

9. Many continental margins are not separated by subduction zones from the divergent boundaries marked by mid-oceanic ridges.

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10. Modeling of lower mantle seismic anisotropy beneath subduction zones.

11. This occurs in trenches, also called subduction zones.

12. Dragon subduction lake that no longer seen.

13. This is called a subduction zone.

14. "This particular subduction zone has produced very damaging earthquakes throughout its history, " said Randy Baldwin, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

15. Following the Triassic collision, with Pacific plate subduction and continuous accumulation towards Eurasian plate in the Jurassic-Cenozoic, the huge accretionary complex belt was eventually formed.

16. They are probably related to the subduction of the Paleo-Asia Oceanic plate, and their intrusion resulted in the contact metamorphism of the Majiajie Group.

17. The subduction of oceanic plates has two tectonic actions of subduction accretion and subduction erosion, which ar interconvertible in different time and space.

18. Mountain Building occurs during rapid subduction of one plate under another.

19. Through the low stress subduction of oceanic plate crustal extension has dominated in Southeastern China.

20. The sequence of continental-margin orogen development begins with the subduction of oceanic lithosphere at, or close to, a continental margin.

21. In the interim before the next collision, plate tectonics resumed but subduction did not.

22. The surface area of a plate is reduced at a subduction zone whereas it is increased along a spreading ridge.

23. The other mechanism involves the effects of heating associated with plate subduction.

24. The Andes will gain elevation overlevel from the pole shift due to Pacific subduction.

25. The old trichotomy scheme on orogenic belts is reviewed and a new one is presented to divide orogenic belts into three categories; intraplate, collision and subduction.

26. According to the isotopic dating, it was emplaced into the active continental margin in Permian, which was resulted from the eastward subduction of the Tethys sea.

27. The formation of this back arc basin was related to the spreading and northward subduction of the Paleo Tethys oceanic basin along the line from the Xijir Ulan Lake K...

28. The polycyclic development of geosynclinal belts is controlled by the cyclicity of subduction during e geological time.

29. Most volcanoes occur near the leading edges of moving plates – near the subduction zone.

30. Since the Permian, the Tarim Basin had undergone basinal extension, subduction and intro - continental orogeny.