Top 10 similar words or synonyms for subducting

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Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for subducting

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Farallon Plate Over time, the central part of the Farallon Plate was completely subducted under the southwestern part of the North American Plate. The remains of the Farallon Plate are the Juan de Fuca, Explorer and Gorda Plates, subducting under the northern part of the North American Plate; the Cocos Plate subducting under Central America; and the Nazca Plate subducting under the South American Plate.
Andesite Magmatism in island arc regions (i.e., active oceanic margins) comes from the interplay of the subducting plate and the "mantle wedge", the wedge-shaped region between the subducting and overriding plates.
Peru–Chile Trench The trench delineates the boundary between the subducting Nazca Plate and the overriding South American Plate.
Volcanic arc A volcanic arc is a chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate,
2001 Geiyo earthquake In this region, a strong earthquake occurred in 1905, which was also an in-slab event within the subducting plate.