subduction
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"This is the first time we have a clear picture of a subduction zone caught in the act of dying," said Shuck.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025
Like cutting cars off a runaway train, each break reduces the downward pull until the entire subduction process grinds to a halt.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025
The study revealed that subduction zones don't fail in one catastrophic break but die in stages, through a process known as "episodic" or "piecewise" termination.
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
The tectonic plates surrounding the Pacific Ocean are converging, or moving toward each other, resulting in a rough arc of subduction faults around the edge of the ocean.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
