Subduction Zone

An area at a convergent plate boundary where an oceanic plate is being forced down into the mantle beneath another plate. These can be identified by a zone of progressively deeper earthquakes.

Related terms:

• subduction
• subduction zones
• ultralow-velocity zone
• Zone of Saturation
• Benioff zone
• Low-Velocity Zone
• fracture zone
• depth zone
• Temperate Zone
• waterless zone