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subduction
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subduction [səb′dək·shən]
(geology)
The process by which one crustal block descends beneath another, such as the descent of the Pacific plate beneath the Andean plate along the Andean Trench.
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But there are three "gaps" or segments along the Aleutian subduction boundary where no great earthquakes have occurred since the turn of the century; these gaps have been targeted as the most likely Aleutian sites of great earthquakes in the near future by a number of seismologists.
Alaskan great quake: ready or not? by Weisburd, Stefi / Science News
 
 
 
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