Assertion: lithosphere's plate | /r/HasProperty | subducted
Facets:
value: preferentially
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In slab pull the weight of a tectonic plate being subducted (pulled) below an overlying plate at a subduction zone drags the rest of the plate along behind it.
text: At subduction zones, the edge of the denser plate subduct s, or slides, beneath the less-dense one.
text: If the edge of one plate slips beneath the edge of another, the lower plate is referred to as a subducting plate, which is typically responsible for creating ocean trenches.
text: Where very old seafloor is being subducted, the slab falls almost straight down, and where younger plates are being subducted, the slab descends at a shallow angle.
text: Where two oceanic plates meet, the older, denser plate is preferentially subducted beneath the younger, warmer one.
text: Where one of the plate margins is oceanic and the other is continental, the greater buoyancy of continental crust prevents it from sinking, and the oceanic plate is preferentially subducted.
text: As the oceanic plate is subducted, it is subjected to greater and greater pressures with increasing depth.
text: In time as the plates are subducted, the transform fault will decrease in length until the transform fault disappears completely, leaving only two subduction zones facing in opposite directions.