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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


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