Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A geologic process in which one edge of one crustal plate is forced below the edge of another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of subducting, taking away, or withdrawing.
- noun Arithmetical subtraction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of subducting or taking away.
- noun Arithmetical subtraction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of being
pushed ordrawn beneath another object. - noun The act of
subducting or taking away. - noun
Arithmetical subtraction .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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The fault involved in the Fukushima Dai-ichi tsunami is part of what is known as a subduction zone.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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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.
Japan: The 'Big One' hit, but not where they thought it would 2011
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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.
Japan: The 'Big One' hit, but not where they thought it would 2011
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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.
Jeff Wise: Could a Sendai-Sized Quake Hit the US? Jeff Wise 2011
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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.
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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.
Jeff Wise: Could a Sendai-Sized Quake Hit the US? Jeff Wise 2011
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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.
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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.
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All of the rock types described above can be returned to the Earth's interior by tectonic forces at areas known as subduction zones.
Rock cycle 2007
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