subduction

IPA: sʌbdˈʌkʃʌn

noun

  • The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
  • (geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
  • The act of subducting or taking away.
  • Arithmetical subtraction.
  • (mathematics, mathematical analysis) A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.
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Examples of "subduction" in Sentences

  • Continued spreading and subduction.
  • Perhaps by the tectonic subduction.
  • Doesn't explain the word subduction.
  • Deep subduction of continental crust.
  • Analog modeling of the initiation of subduction.
  • The process of subduction creates metamorphism in the subducting slab.
  • The arc has formed due to subduction along the Cascadia subduction zone.
  • These plates are destroyed by subduction into the mantle at subduction zones.
  • This large oceanic plate was consumed at subduction zones see subduction zone .

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