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Darya [45]
3 years ago
13

What is it called when one plate slides under another plate?

Biology
2 answers:
blondinia [14]3 years ago
6 0

It is called B.subduction

Yanka [14]3 years ago
5 0

Where two tectonic plates meet at a subduction zone, one bends and slides underneath the other, curving down into the mantle.

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