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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:
Not my field, but..
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 ...
webspinners.com/dlblanc/tectonic/mechansm.php
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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2 hrs confidence:   peer agreement (net): +3 | drawn under also *subduction*
Explanation:
Not my field, but..
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 ...
webspinners.com/dlblanc/tectonic/mechansm.php
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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