subduct
Plunge under another
To subduct is to draw or pull downward or inward.
The term appears most often in geology, where one tectonic plate subducts beneath another, diving into the Earth's mantle: The Pacific plate subducts under the North American plate.
In anatomy, muscles subduct when they pull a body part downward or inward.
tectonics
Flat dish for food
- mantleCovering or wrap
- oceanicOf the sea
- lithosphereCrust plus upper mantle
- asthenosphereDuctile upper mantle layer
trench · orogeny · metamorphism · volcanism · earthquake · seismicity · geodynamics · megathrust
plate
Flat dish for food
- mantleCovering or wrap
- oceanicOf the sea
- lithosphereCrust plus upper mantle
asthenosphere · trench · orogeny · metamorphism · volcanism · earthquake · seismicity · geodynamics · megathrust
retract
Withdraw something said
retreat · contract · shrink · diminish · decrease · lessen · deplete · subtract · deduct
- subduction zoneWhere one plate slides under another