Regardless of the outcome of the continental migration, the continued subduction process causes water to be transported to the mantle.

Hydrous magmas of basalt and andesite composition are produced directly and indirectly as results of dehydration during the subduction process.

Some authors believe that the subduction process is still ongoing, which is a matter of debate (van Dijk & Scheepers, 1995).

Most elementally, the country is divided into a mountainous western area affected by the subduction processes in the Pacific and an eastern lowlands of stable platforms and shields.

A GPS marker on the surface of the North American plate above the locked region will trend eastward as it is dragged by the subduction process.

The subduction process causes bending of the downgoing plate, creating a deep-sea trench.

The subduction process consumes older oceanic lithosphere, so oceanic crust is seldom more than 200 million years old.

They are poorly preserved in the sedimentary record, because they tend to be consumed by the subduction process.

The rate of this part of the subduction process was determined by friction.

A byproduct of the subduction process is the formation of volcanoes at some distance inland from the subduction zone.