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.
Advertisement
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 .
- The fault involved in the Fukushima Dai-ichi tsunami is part of what is known as a subduction zone.
- This blue line here, that's what we call the subduction zone, so that's kind of where the plates, one lays on top of the other.
- All of the rock types described above can be returned to the Earth's interior by tectonic forces at areas known as subduction zones.
- Sendai was a result of something far more dangerous: a so-called subduction zone, a deep-lying discontinuity caused by one plate slowly burying itself under another.
- The region where subduction takes place is called a subduction zone and usually results in a deep ocean trench such as the "Mariana Trench" in the western Pacific Ocean.
- Most earthquakes that generate tsunamis - including Friday's jolt off Japan's eastern coast - occur in areas called subduction zones, where pieces of the Earth's crust press against each other.
- Tremors are common throughout Japan, and this one was near the Japan Trench, where the Pacific plate, the speediest of the earth's major slabs of crust, dives beneath the islands of Japan in what's called a subduction zone.
- A tsunami happens when a crustal plate, a crust -- you know you talk about the plates on the earth -- they move all around -- when it's called subduction -- when one is going down and the other one is moving over it and all of a sudden it pops up.