| 1. | That is the reason why oceanic plates always subduct under another plate.
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| 2. | The Kula Plate is an ancient subduct under Alaska.
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| 3. | Hence it is difficult in this case to subduct water through the thermohaline circulation.
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| 4. | When two plates containing continental crust collide, both are too light to subduct.
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| 5. | At Taitao, the Chile Triple Junction and the Nazca Plate subduct the South American Plate.
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| 6. | Plate tectonics also provided the mechanism by which the former ocean disappeared : oceanic crust can subduct under continental crust.
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| 7. | Around 200 million years ago an ancient oceanic plate named the Farallon Plate began to subduct beneath the North American Plate.
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| 8. | On Earth, colliding plates either subduct _ one plate slipping below the other _ or wrinkle up to form mountain ranges.
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| 9. | In between these two ridge trench encounter points, a small triangular shaped plate continued to subduct between Brisbane and Coffs Harbour.
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| 10. | About 15 million years ago in the Miocene the Chile Ridge begun to subduct beneath southern tip Patagonia ( 55?S ).
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