Sentences with phrase «gets subducted»

Often, one plate gets subducted under another and sinks into the mantle beneath, while elsewhere, new rocks rise to the surface.

«Some material might be associated with former basaltic oceanic crust that got subducted deeply.

Not exact matches

«We find that around 3 billion years ago, subducted slabs would have remained more dense than the surrounding mantle, even in the transition zone, and there's no reason from a buoyancy standpoint why slabs should get stuck there.

That's because the rising magma that produced the lavas probably mixed with upper mantle rocks, which have been contaminated with isotopically heavy surface water that got dragged down by subducting slabs of tectonic plates.

With Venus storing up enough heat so as to finally subduct its entire surface when it got so much heat energy that it couldn't hold it any more.