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subduction


subduction
Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
The process describing when one lithospheric plate collides with and is overridden by, or descends under, an adjacent plate. The subduction zone is the place where two lithospheric plates come together, one riding over the other. Most volcanoes on land occur parallel to and inland from the boundary between the two plates.


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