subduction

What it means

1. countableuncountableThe action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
2. countableuncountablegeographyThe process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.

   Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.

   2000, Ki-Hong Chang, Sun-Ok Park, Soobum Chang, “Upper Mesozoic unconformity-bounded units of Korean Peninsula with Koguryo Magmatic Province”, in H. Okada, N. J. Mateer, editors, Cretaceous Environments of Asia, Elsevier, page 108

   2 more examples

   Evidence for a subduction polarity flip is clear in the Irish Caledonides, where the S-dipping slab beneath the Lough Nafooey arc (Dewey & Ryan 1990; Clift & Ryan 1994) became a N-dipping subduction zone after the Grampian Orogeny.

   2003, Peter D. Clift, Hans Schouten, Amy E. Draut, “A general model for arc-continent collision and subduction polarity reversal from Taiwan and the Irish Caledonides”, in Robert D. Larter, Philip T. Leat, editors, Intra-oceanic Subduction Systems: Tectonic and Magmatic Processes, The Geological Society, page 91

   Earthquakes on the subduction interface itself are low-angle thrusts in the depth range 15–45 km, generally reaching a maximum depth of 20 km in the west and 45 km in the centre of the arc, near Crete.

   2012, Beth Shaw, Active Tectonics of the Hellenic Subduction Zone, Springer, page 61

3. countableuncountableThe act of subducting or taking away.

   threatened the subduction of his own presence

   1651 (indicated as 1652), Joseph Hall, “The Invisible World Discovered to Spiritual Eyes, and Reduced to Useful Meditation. […]”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume VI (Devotional Works), London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Williams and Smith, […], published 1808, →OCLC

In a sentence

Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.

2000, Ki-Hong Chang, Sun-Ok Park, Soobum Chang, “Upper Mesozoic unconformity-bounded units of Korean Peninsula with Koguryo Magmatic Province”, in H. Okada, N. J. Mateer, editors, Cretaceous Environments of Asia, Elsevier, page 108

Where it comes from

1. Latinsubductiō
2. Englishsubduction

From Latin subductiō, from subdūcere (“to draw from under or below”). Equivalent to subduct + -ion or subduce + -tion.