Similar words: abduction, deduction, seduction, reduction, adduction, induction, abducting, production. Meaning: n. a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate.
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31. This allows the ear nerve to be tempered, frequency noise damage, there is a certain subduction.
32. 'The Pacific Northwest - what we call the Cascadia Subduction Zone - has the same kind of characteristics as the fault beneath Japan, ' seismologist James Gaherty told CBS.
33. HPM-UHPM registers the low thermal gradients and deep subduction of continental crust during the early stage of the collision process in Phanerozoic subduction-to-collision orogens.
34. The enrichment of the HFS elements such as Nb, Ta, Zr, Hf suggests that the forming environment of Zedang ophiolite is not related to plate subduction.
35. The main A-type subduction fault and large scale thin-skinned tectonics clearly reveal that the Yangtze Plate subsides towards Dabie orogenic belt.
36. The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 was the direct result of plate subduction.
37. The parameters of heat-degradation dynamics in the first and second stages are gained by dealing with the TG and DTG curves using differential subduction method.
38. Basinal extension and subduction was related to activity of mantle plume, formation and evolution of mantle plume resulted in geothermal decreasing of lithosphere in the basin.
39. The subduction system of the plate can be regarded as a factory.
40. Since the middle Miocene, the South China Sea had subducted beneath the Philippine Sea Plate along the Manila Trench(Sentencedict.com), and the subduction prism came into being.
41. Subduction can release pressure by pushing flakes of land that separate from lower stratas forward.
42. Certain parts of the plate boundaries along subduction zones appear to be aseismic.
43. Tarim land plate and Caucasia - Qiangtang plate was divided by Kangxiwa ophiolite belt formed by multi-period subduction.
44. Seafloor Morphology of the Sumatran Subduction Zone : Surface Rupture During Megathrust Earthquakes?
45. The site of this destruction is another kind of plate boundary: a subduction zone.
46. Stud - ies of subduction dynamics in China were reviewed simply at last.
47. Contrarily, the smaller angle of dip and the gentler subduction, the longer horizontally stretching distance.
48. Under the influence of the subduction, the source mantle of the potassic lamprophyres has a high geothermal gradient and oxygen fugacity.
49. I think a lot of scientists worldwide wondered whether this particular subduction zone — the Japan trench, the southern part — could ever produce a great earthquake.
50. What the vulcanism of the Cascade Mountains tells you is that this range not only has active subduction beneath it, but that the rock layer riding on top is thin.
51. The south Tianshan ocean polarity of subduction is south to north.
52. In the arc petrogenesis system, such melting conditions are most likely to occur in the initial stage of slab subduction.
53. The discovery of the xenolith is of important implication for us to recognize the deep subduction direction and the scale of the Dabie-Sulu ultrahigh-pressure(UHP) metamorphic belt.
54. Recent studies also set up several ophiolite emplacement models, such as bidivergent emplacement, domino-like rotation emplacement and subduction and rapid exhumation emplacement.
55. The next Pangea, "Pangea Ultima" will form as a result of the subduction of the ocean floor of the North and South Atlantic beneath eastern North America and South America.
56. Japan sits on top of four tectonic plates, at the edge of the subduction zone, and is in one of the most tectonically active regions of the world.
57. Four deep- seat fault series and five corresponding plate suture zones were formed in Shangjiang region of Yunnan, due to the subduction of Tethys ocean plate and Indian continental plate.
58. The crustal structure in the eastern segment of the Central orogenic belt reflects the northward deep intracontinental subduction of the Yangtze craton.
59. The seismic subduction zones have shown signs of rapid movement recently.
60. Eclogite plays an important role in mantle convection and dynamics in subduction zone.
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