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Participant: part of or influencing processesSubducting slabs
Appears in 2 processs and 7 steps. Everything below is linked: open a process to see it in context.
Top processes
- Slab pull and slab suction from sinking slabs are the main forces moving plates (about 60% and 40% today); ridge push is a minor remainder
- Sinking slab heats up and releases water from hydrous minerals into the mantle wedge
- (fork) Does the slab water come out beneath the arc or ride deeper into the mantle?
- and 1 more in this process
- Plate motion loads locked faults elastically; strain builds for decades to centuries until friction fails (elastic rebound)
- How a plate-boundary fault releases its strain
- Most large earthquakes occur at subduction trenches; the 2011 Tohoku M9 released strain stored where the Pacific plate subducts beneath Japan
Often found with
Gravitational potential energy 4Water 3Lithospheric plates 2Faults 2Mantle wedge 1Hydrous minerals 1Deep mantle 1Carbon 1Earthquakes 1Pacific plate 1
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