The process by which one tectonic plate, usually denser oceanic crust, is forced beneath another plate and sinks into the mantle at a convergent boundary. Subduction generates the world's deepest ocean trenches, its most powerful earthquakes, and the volcanic arcs that form as subducted material melts and rises through the overriding plate.
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Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at the convergent boundaries between tectonic plates.
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Aconcagua (Wikipedia)
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Aconcagua was formed by the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate and was once an active stratovolcano, before tectonic shifts during the Miocene halted volcanic activity.
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