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Subduction zones exist all over the earth's surface, its crust. However the highest concentration of subduction zones is in the Pacific Ring of Fire, a horseshoe shaped zone of an almost continuous belt of oceanic trenches and volcanoes belts that extends from the western coast of South America, the same coast of North America, across the Bering Strait, down the Western parts of Asia, including Japan and Hong Kong underlies Indonesia and surrounding countries before finally ending in an arch that curves around Australia and finishes under New Zealand
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∙ 12y agoThe subduction zone is the area below the crust where the solid rock (which used to be part of the crust) becomes liquid. They only occur with destructive plate margins (e.g. between the Chile and Nazca plates).
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∙ 12y agoMarianna Trench in the Pacific plate shows subduction of another plate and the rise of the pacific plate.
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What is the process in which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle is called?
subduction is the answer.
What is the process of the ocean floor sinking beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle known as?
It is called subduction.
What is a synonym for subduction?
A synonym for subduction is decrease.
What is the name of the process where ocean crust sinks back toward the mantle?
It is called subduction and only occurs in oceanic to oceanic or oceanic to continental plate collisions.
The deepest earthquakes occur were?
In Subduction zones.
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what are examples of biotic
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bone,
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circle, sphere, oval
What is the process in which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle is called?
subduction is the answer.
What are some nonexamples of a physical change?
Well , eating pizza (:
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A example is sand castle hope I helped
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the number of girls in a class compares to color of bananas
What is the process of the ocean floor sinking beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle known as?
It is called subduction.
How do you spell subduction?
That is the correct spelling of "subduction."
What is a synonym for subduction?
A synonym for subduction is decrease.
What is the name of the process where ocean crust sinks back toward the mantle?
It is called subduction and only occurs in oceanic to oceanic or oceanic to continental plate collisions.
What is it called when two plates slide one under the other?
It is known as subduction.
