The transformation into magma of a denser plate as it dives under another, less dense, plate. See ocean trench, island arc, benioff zone.
subduction
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- forearc (geology)
- Oceanic Trench (science)
- subduction
- back-arc basin (geology)
- blueschist facies (petrology)
- Aleutian current
- Convergence (science)
- Subduction zones
- island arc
- Glaucophane (mineralogy and petrology)
- orogeny
- mélange (mixture)
- destructive margin
- Wilson cycle
