Definition of Subducts. Meaning of Subducts. Synonyms of Subducts

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Definition of Subducts

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 Subducts from wikipedia

- construct. Geology makes to subduct into an intransitive verb and a reflexive verb. The lower plate itself is the subject. It subducts, in the sense of retreat...
- plate subducts beneath the continental South American plate at the Peru–Chile Trench. Just north of the Nazca plate, the oceanic Cocos plate subducts under...
- region, the Sunda megathrust is located where the Indo-Australian plate subducts under the Eurasian plate along a 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi) fault off...
- lithosphere and continental lithosphere collide, the dense oceanic lithosphere subducts beneath the less dense continental lithosphere. An accretionary wedge forms...
- crust subducts beneath other oceanic crust on an adjacent plate, creating a volcanic island arc. continental arcs form when oceanic crust subducts beneath...
- mountains in the Philippines. Several of these are volcanoes, formed by subducting tectonic plates surrounding the archipelago. Map all coordinates using...
- A model of the subducting Farallon slab under North America...
- the continental edge. Slivers of continental crust, carried along by subducting ocean plates, were swept into the subduction zone and s****ed onto North...
- plate which carries the Mariana Islands. To the east, the Pacific plate subducts beneath the Philippine Sea plate at the Izu–Ogasawara Trench. To the south...
- Simultaneously, the vast Tethyn oceanic crust, to its northeast, began to subduct under the Eurasian Plate. These dual processes, driven by convection in...