subduction
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Transform boundaries -- the faults where plates slide past each other -- act like natural scissors, slicing across the plate and isolating fragments that form new microplates while subduction continues nearby.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025
Although each episode takes millions of years, these gradual stages together mark the death of a subduction zone.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025
"Getting a subduction zone started is like trying to push a train uphill -- it takes a huge effort," said Brandon Shuck, a geologist at Louisiana State University and lead author of the study.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025
New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating back-to-back earthquake disasters.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025
Just off its east coast, deep beneath the seafloor, giant chunks of Earth’s lithosphere and crust are being sucked beneath the country in a process called subduction.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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