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The 140 pages that link to Subduction, each with the reason it gives.

• Andean orogenyNarrower topic: Subduction establishes the forces and melting processes behind the Andean margin.

• Barberton Greenstone BeltRelated: Proposed tectonic models use subduction to explain parts of the belt’s deformation and magmatism.

• KimberliteRelated: Recycled materials from subduction may contribute to some kimberlite source regions.

• Mount RainierRelated: Subduction beneath Washington supplies magma to the Cascade volcanoes.

• Ocean drillingRelated: Drilled sediments at subduction zones reveal how material enters convergent margins.

• Oceanic lithosphereRelated: It returns old oceanic lithosphere to Earth's interior.

• Passive marginCompared with: Subduction commonly drives the earthquakes and volcanism absent from quiet passive margins.

• Wadati–Benioff zoneNarrower topic: Subduction produces the dipping slab whose earthquakes define the zone.

• Challenger DeepRelated: Subduction of the Pacific Plate helps form the Mariana Trench.

• Earth's crustRelated: It returns much oceanic crust to the mantle and helps drive the crustal cycle.

• Okhotsk PlateNarrower topic: Subduction at the plate’s eastern and southern edges generates earthquakes and volcanism.

• Peru–Chile TrenchNarrower topic: This plate-boundary process forms the trench and drives regional volcanism.

• Philippine SeaNarrower topic: Subduction at the sea’s margins creates trenches, earthquakes, and volcanic arcs.

• Slab rollbackNarrower topic: Rollback occurs within subduction but describes horizontal hinge motion, not descent itself.

• Trans-Mexican Volcanic BeltNarrower topic: This process drives melting beneath the belt and produces its magmas.

• Aleutian TrenchNarrower topic: Subduction bends the incoming plate and deepens the seafloor at the boundary.

• Anatolian PlateRelated: Subduction around the Aegean helps balance motion at Anatolia’s western margin.

• Apennine MountainsNarrower topic: Subduction in the western Mediterranean is part of the chain’s tectonic history.

• Central American Volcanic ArcNarrower topic: The arc is a classic landward volcanic chain produced above a subducting plate.

• Fuji-Hakone-Izu National ParkNarrower topic: Subduction beneath Japan supplies magma to the region’s volcanoes.

• Kuril–Kamchatka TrenchNarrower topic: The Pacific Plate sinks beneath the Okhotsk Plate, creating the trench.

• Mantle transition zoneRelated: Subducted slabs transport cold rock and water into the transition zone.

• Marine geologyRelated: It removes oceanic crust and forms deep trenches and volcanic arcs.

• Mexican PlateauNarrower topic: Subduction beneath western Mexico contributes to regional volcanism and mountain building.

• PannotiaRelated: Oceanic subduction could have driven convergence before Pannotia’s proposed assembly.

• Sagami BayNarrower topic: Plate convergence beneath the bay drives earthquakes and long-term seabed deformation.

• Variscan orogenyNarrower topic: Subduction consumed oceanic crust before continental blocks collided.

• Bransfield StraitRelated: The former subduction zone west of the peninsula is linked to the region’s tectonic history.

• LaurussiaRelated: Subduction consumed oceanic crust as the Iapetus Ocean closed before collision.

• Mount PeléeNarrower topic: Subduction beneath the Caribbean region supplies magma to Pelée and neighboring volcanoes.

• Oceanic plateauRelated: Thick plateau crust can resist sinking and change how a subduction zone evolves.

• Rheic OceanNarrower topic: Subduction consumed oceanic crust along margins of the closing Rheic basin.

• Ring of FireBroader topic: Every segment of the Ring of Fire is a subduction zone; the whole belt is the rim of subducting Pacific seafloor.

• Submarine volcanoRelated: Subduction generates magma that feeds many submarine volcanoes.

• Tonga TrenchNarrower topic: The sinking Pacific Plate is the process that forms and maintains the trench.

• ArchipelagoRelated: It drives the volcanism that forms island arcs.

• Central Asian Orogenic BeltRelated: Subduction generated magmatic arcs and helped consume oceans within the belt.

• Deep-focus earthquakeNarrower topic: Descending plates carry the cold, stressed rock in which most deep-focus earthquakes occur.

• Japanese island arcNarrower topic: Oceanic plates descend beneath Japan, generating earthquakes and the magma that feeds its volcanoes.

• Puerto Rico TrenchNarrower topic: Underthrusting at the trench is a shallow, complex form of plate convergence.

• Superior CratonRelated: Subduction is one proposed setting for the craton’s volcanic arcs and crustal growth.

• Whole-mantle convectionNarrower topic: Subduction sends surface material downward and supplies the clearest candidate flow across the transition zone.

• Alaska PeninsulaNarrower topic: Pacific Plate subduction generates the magma feeding the peninsula’s volcanoes.

• Coast MountainsNarrower topic: Ancient subduction generated magma that contributed to the Coast Mountains’ bedrock.

• Italian PeninsulaNarrower topic: Subduction around Italy helps explain its active volcanic and earthquake zones.

• Izu IslandsNarrower topic: Pacific Plate subduction supplies the geological setting for Izu volcanism.

• Klyuchevskaya SopkaNarrower topic: The subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Okhotsk region helps supply Kamchatka’s magma.

• Upper mantleRelated: A descending slab transfers water and other materials into the upper mantle.

• Geochemical cycleRelated: Subduction returns surface materials and their elements to the deep Earth.

• Kermadec IslandsNarrower topic: Pacific Plate subduction beneath the Australian Plate feeds the Kermadec volcanic arc.