Bilingual glossary of geology
Subduction Zone Zone de subduction
A long narrow belt along the Earth's surface where an oceanic lithospheric plate sinks beneath a converging and overriding oceanic or continental lithospheric plate.
Themes:
Plate tectonics theory and rock cycle
Related words:
Convergent Plate Boundary
Continental Crust
Oceanic Crust
Subduction
Image:
Themes:
Plate tectonics theory and rock cycle
Related words:
Convergent Plate Boundary
Continental Crust
Oceanic Crust
Subduction
Image: