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subduction zone

n. (context geology English) A region of the Earth where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another into the interior of the Earth

Usage examples of "subduction zone".

They prove my hypothesis that within recent geological time some sophont race has been burying garbage in this subduction zone of the planet!

No doubt many of the old track's twists and turns had been caused by an unequal creeping of the surface land toward some fast subduction zone nearby.

She had been working alone in a remote area, and it was feared that she had been caught in a subduction zone.

The Mariana Trench, in addition to being crushed under seven miles of water, was a subduction zone&mdash.

The little bowl was just right, and Moldylocks ate it all like a subduction zone eating a continent, only faster—.

Someone well positioned to strike at us, though, and afterward bury the story in a subduction zone.