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2006-12-12 09:09:51 · 1 answers · asked by pervaiz elahi bukh soomro 1 in Environment

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In geology, a subduction zone is an area on Earth where two tectonic plates meet and move towards one another, with one sliding underneath the other and moving down into the mantle, at rates typically measured in centimeters per year.

Obduction is the overthrusting of continental crust by oceanic crust or mantle rocks at a destructive plate boundary

2006-12-12 12:30:20 · answer #1 · answered by The Face 3 · 0 0

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