Definition of Subduct. Meaning of Subduct. Synonyms of Subduct

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Definition of Subduct

Subduct
Subduce Sub*duce", Subduct Sub*duct", v. t. [L. subducere, subductum; sub under + ducere to lead, to draw. See Duke, and cf. Subdue.] 1. To withdraw; to take away. --Milton. 2. To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct. If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten. --Sir M. Hale.

Meaning of Subduct from wikipedia

- subduction zones, and fluids released by the subducting plate trigger volcanism in the overriding plate. If the subducting plate sinks at a shallow angle, the...
- crust. The force of gravity helps drive the subducting slab into the mantle. As the relatively cool subducting slab sinks deeper into the mantle, it is heated...
- known as a magmatic arc: 6.2 ) is a belt of volcanoes formed above a subducting oceanic tectonic plate, with the belt arranged in an arc shape as seen...
- extension in the overriding plate, in response to the displacement of the subducting slab at some oceanic trenches. This paradoxically results in divergence...
- (1.2 sq mi) per year. A trench marks the position at which the flexed, subducting slab begins to descend beneath another lithospheric slab. Trenches are...
- some volcanic islands as well as east–west running seamount chains that subduct under South America. Nazca is a relatively young plate in terms of the...
- which began to evolve in the Eocene when the Pacific plate started to subduct beneath the Australian plate. Convergence rates along this subduction system...
- overriding plate and subducting plate do not remain the same indefinitely. Their roles will swap, which means the plate originally subducting beneath will become...
- mountains in the Philippines. Several of these are volcanoes, formed by subducting tectonic plates surrounding the archipelago. Map all coordinates using...
- 4 in) per year towards the Atlantic Ocean. The Antarctic plate started to subduct beneath South America 14 million years ago in the Miocene epoch. At first...