Sentence examples for uppermost subducting from inspiring English sources

zones in the uppermost subducting oceanic crust.

Precise measurements from ocean bottom seismographs (OBSs) detected numerous intraplate earthquakes after the 2011 event ranging in location from approximately 120 km seaward of the trench to approximately 90 km landward of the trench with mainly normal fault focal mechanisms in the uppermost subducting Pacific Plate (Obana et al. 2012; Obana et al. 2013).

Low-Q anomalies are revealed by tomography method in the crust and uppermost mantle beneath active volcanic areas, such as Aso, Sakurajima and Kirishima, whereas the subducting Philippine Sea slab exhibits high-Q character (e.g., Pei et al. 2009; Liu and Zhao 2015).

Both occurred in spots where one plate of the earth's crust is subducting, or sliding beneath another plate.

The tectonic plates are shifting in the world economy, subducting some currencies and thrusting up others.

Many of these plates are in the process of subducting under the continental plates they border.

The Juan de Fuca Plate, east of this spreading centre, is subducting under the North American Plate.

Fluids released from subducting crust also transform mantle rocks into a mineral called serpentine.

Gray areas denote subducting oceanic crust.

Eruptions associated with subducting zones, meanwhile, are driven by subducting plates that add volatiles to the rising plate, lowering its melting point.

Moreover, the faster the plate is subducting, the wider is the area affected by crustal dehydration.