Subductive vs. Subduction

Subductiveadjective

(geology) Of, related to, or caused by tectonic plate subduction

Subductionnoun

The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.

Subductionnoun

(geology) The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

Subductionnoun

The act of subducting or taking away.

Subductionnoun

Arithmetical subtraction.

Subductionnoun

A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.

Subductionnoun

The act of subducting or taking away.

Subductionnoun

Arithmetical subtraction.

Subductionnoun

a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate

Subduction

Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries. Where the oceanic lithosphere of a tectonic plate converges with the less dense lithosphere of a second plate, the heavier plate dives beneath the second plate and sinks into the mantle.