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Science - Geology | | English term or phrase: Drawn under | "The thinner Pacific plate collides with the continental crust of the Indo-Australian plate, heating and melting as it is drawn under."
Drawn under by what? Does it mean that the Pacific plate is crushed by the continental crust of the Indo-Australian plate at the collision? |
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| also *subduction* | Explanation:
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The process by which one tectonic plate moves under another:
As the plate edge is drawn under, it pulls the remainder of the plate behind it. ... The traditional wisdom is that new rifts form under large continental ...
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The resulting collision. may create subduction. • Subduction: A process by which the edge of one continental plate is drawn under a. neighboring plate. ...
www.captech.org/pdfs/og1_lp03.pdf |
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