Sentences with phrase «through subduction zones»

It leaves through subduction zones, mainly as carbonates, which are heated through the volcanic process and returned to the system as CO2, thus completing the cycle.

This occurs mainly through subduction zones into the Earth's mantle, as carbonates.

Not exact matches

SASMEX tracks seismicity in the subduction zone through 97 seismic monitoring stations.

For example, waves move slower when passing through hot magma, such as mantle plumes and hotspots, than they do when passing through colder subduction zones, locations where one tectonic plate slides beneath another.

Kattenhorn and Prockter saw ice volcanoes on the overriding plate, possibly formed through melting and absorption of the slab as it dove below the surface, and a lack of mountains at the subduction zone, implying material was pushed into the interior rather than crumpled up as the two plates mashed against each other.

[4] The ocean's influence extends even to the composition of volcanic rocks through seafloor metamorphism, as well as to that of volcanic gases and magmas created at subduction zones.