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Definition of Subducted

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 Subducted from wikipedia

- released fluids can trigger seismicity and induce melting within the subducted plate and in the overlying mantle wedge. This type of melting selectively...
- Francisco, California. Over time, the central part of the Farallon plate was subducted under the southwestern part of the North American plate. The remains of...
- (spinel and then silicate perovskite and post-perovskite). Slabs that are subducted may be negatively buoyant as a result of being cold from their time on...
- lithosphere that is being subducted. The older the oceanic lithosphere being subducted, the steeper the angle of descent of the subducted slab. As the Pacific's...
- south of the Near Islands segment of the Aleutian Islands. It has been subducted under the North American plate at the Aleutian Trench, being replaced...
- In geology, a slab window is a gap that forms in a subducted oceanic plate when a mid-ocean ridge meets with a subduction zone and plate divergence at...
- oceanic lithosphere is formed at an oceanic ridge, while the lithosphere is subducted back into the asthenosphere at ocean trenches. Two processes, ridge-push...
- In this system, the western edge of one plate, the Pacific plate, is subducted (i.e., thrust) beneath the smaller Mariana plate that lies to the west...
- a remnant part of the once-vast Farallon plate, which is now largely subducted underneath the North American plate. In plate tectonic reconstructions...
- a typical distance that oceanic lithosphere must travel before being subducted, the thickness varies from about 6 km (4 mi) thick at mid-ocean ridges...