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- verb Present participle of
subduct .
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Examples
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The temblor was triggered when the "subducting" Nazca plate was thrust under the South American plate, uplifting a large patch of the seafloor and prompting tsunami warnings throughout the Pacific Ocean.
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"subducting" beneath a continental plate of Earth's crust.
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"subducting" beneath a continental plate of Earth's crust.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010
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"subduction zone" where the oceanic plate is diving or "subducting" beneath a continental plate of Earth's crust.
Media Newswire 2010
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There is, indeed, a plate boundary, called the Nankai Trough, that runs off the coast of the island of Honshu, where the Philippine plate is subducting beneath Japan.
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I won't delve into the interesting geologic history of how this part of the North American plate (hence the reason for the Cascade chain of volcanos) has apparently scraped a series of off-shore island chains (found off-shore on most subducting plates like the off our coast) off of the Juan de Fuca plate, and they've been consolidated on the leading (western) edge of the NA plate -- forming this part of the state.
Sound Politics: "The heavyweight fight for the waterfront" 2007
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Specifically, Venus does have plate tectonics, but with the crust subducting quickly within a few million years but mostly a few hundred million years of stability.
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This agrees with the current leader for the cause of plate tectonics: the weight of the subducting downgoing plate.
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Take the waste and bury it in the ocean bed in places where the continental plate is subducting.
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When we find such constraining motives unto holiness upon us as will not allow the least subducting of our souls from a universal attendance unto it, purely on the ends of the gospel, without respect unto those now discarded, it is an evidence that the wisdom of God hath prevailed against that of the flesh in our minds.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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