subduction in Portuguese
subduction in Portuguese is subdução — subduction means the process of being forced or pulled down beneath something else.
subduction in Portuguese
subdução
(geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
What does "subduction" mean?
- noun The process of being forced or pulled down beneath something else.
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noun In geology, the way one of the Earth's plates slides underneath another and sinks into the layer below, where they meet.
"Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone."
- noun The act of removing or taking something away.
- noun Subtraction in arithmetic.
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subduction in a sentence
- Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.
- Evidence for a subduction polarity flip is clear in the Irish Caledonides, where the S-dipping slab beneath the Lough Nafooey arc (Dewey & Ryan 1990; Clift & Ryan 1994) became a N-dipping subduction zone after the Grampian Orogeny.
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What is "subduction" in Portuguese?
"subduction" in Portuguese is subdução. subduction means: The process of being forced or pulled down beneath something else.
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