How to pronounce “subduct” in English

As the Tethys Ocean floor subducted, some of it got scraped up by the moving continents and left behind.

We don't know much about the subduction zones.

That’s what’s happening at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 1,300-kilometer-long tectonic plate boundary that runs along the United States’ Northwest Pacific Coast.

And all that effort of the Indian plate moving northward and subducting into the Asian land mass has created the Himalayas, and Everest itself

In the last 3,500 years, the Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated at least seven major earthquakes, occurring 246 years apart on average.

Like, lots of volcanoes form at subduction zones, where two tectonic plates converge.

So. Megathrust faults. They also crop up in subduction zones— where one tectonic plate dives beneath another.

Here, the Juan de Fuca and Gorda oceanic plates are subducting beneath the North American continental plate, creating a megathrust fault in between.

In 2015, journalist Kathryn Schulz investigated the risks of a massive earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone.

When a dense oceanic plate meets a more buoyant continental plate, a process called subduction happens: the denser plate slides underneath the other one, returning that rock to the mantle.

And this is largely what happens in the Ring of Fire; it’s full of subduction zones.

But specifically, what is happening right now is that Africa is being subducted beneath the Eurasian plate.

200 million years later it's disappearing into the deep trenches, the subduction zone.

Well, at the same time as the Indian continental plate was moving toward the Eurasian plate, an oceanic plate at the bottom of the prehistoric Tethys Ocean was subducting.

And if two dense, oceanic plates meet at a convergent boundary, subduction can create huge depressions in the surface, like the Ring of Fire’s Mariana Trench,

is really an example of all the mountains eventually turn into the sea, and they get recycled, and subducted, moved around again.