Sentences with phrase «subducted if»
This also applies to the Earth's surface: the ring - shaped weaknesses can (in the model) only be enlarged and subducted if the margins are torn.
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As the model helps explain, a volcano can form inland if the slab subducts at a shallower angle, and a hole in the shallow slab allows for a special type of magma to form by melting of the crust.
The model showed that if there were varying amounts of salt in the surface ice shell, it could provide the necessary density differences for a slab to subduct.