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subduction
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Was the larger subduction zone shaking off stress from the two giant plates locked against each other?
The culprit is the Cascadia subduction zone, which geologists say is a near twin of the fault zone that produced the deadly Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in late 2004.
Topics include Precambrian tectonics and the supercontinent cycle, implications of plate tectonics for environmental change, large igneous provinces, rifted continental margins, ocean ridges, continental transforms, subduction zones, and many organic examples.
 
 
 
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