Dictionary:Subduction zone
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The zone where one plate plunges beneath another plate. See Figure P-5. B-type (Benioff) subduction involves an oceanic plate plunging underneath another plate. An A-type (alpine or Ampferer) collision involves a continent-continent collision.
