subduction
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Cape Mendocino is particularly important because it lies near the region where the northern San Andreas system and the Cascadia subduction zone converge.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
At the time, Goldfinger and his colleagues were collecting sediment cores from the Cascadia subduction zone off Oregon and northern California.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Together, the datasets produced a more detailed map of the Cascadia subduction zone and could help scientists improve estimates of earthquake hazards across northern Oregon.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
To get a clearer picture of the subduction zone beneath the northern Oregon coast, Wirth and her colleagues installed 192 temporary nodal seismometers during the summers of 2021 and 2022.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
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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