SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -This place where the denser plate subducts is called a subduction zone.

Detailed explanation-2: -Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth’s mantle at convergent boundaries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Subduction, a convergent activity, occurs as a plate with heavier ocean crust collides with a plate of lighter, continental crust. The ocean crust pushes under and sinks into the mantle. Ocean trenches, volcanoes, and island arcs are associated with subduction zones.

Detailed explanation-4: -At an ocean-ocean convergent boundary, one of the plates (oceanic crust and lithospheric mantle) is pushed, or subducted, under the other (Figure 4.6. 1). Often it is the older and colder plate that is denser and subducts beneath the younger and warmer plate.

Detailed explanation-5: -If two tectonic plates collide, they form a convergent plate boundary. Usually, one of the converging plates will move beneath the other, a process known as subduction.

Detailed explanation-6: -Subduction is part of the recycling process in plate tectonics. Plates melt to form volcanoes, trenches, and new rock at subduction zones, while new oceanic plates are formed at divergent boundaries such as the mid-ocean ridge.