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Above is a diagram of the conventional tectonic view of "subduction" -- the action of one plate supposedly diving beneath another plate. Description from mathisencorollary.blogspot.co.uk. I searched for this on bing.com/images Plate Tectonic Theory, Structure Of The Earth, Barbados Beaches, Plate Boundaries, Subduction Zone, Tectonic Plates, Barbados Travel, Plate Tectonics, Earth Science

Above is a diagram of the conventional tectonic view of "subduction" -- the action of one plate supposedly diving beneath another plate. This diagram can be found on Wikimedia commons, and there are many more like it which all show roughly the same concept. According to the conventional view, when one plate runs into another, it will sometimes dive beneath the other plate, creating a trench (marked in the diagram above) along the line of subduction. Additionally, the conventional theory…

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