subduction zone
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noun
geology a long narrow, often arcuate, zone along which subduction takes place
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subduction zone
A convergent plate boundary where one plate subducts beneath the other, usually because it is denser. The western coast of South America is roughly coincident with a subduction zone in which a plate consisting of ocean floor is subducting beneath the continental mass of South America.
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