As subduction occurs below the continental shelf, earthquakes become more likely.
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Subduction
/səbˈdʌkʃən/
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Earthquakes often occur at subduction zones.
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Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.
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Evidence for a subduction polarity flip is clear in the Irish Caledonides, where the S-dipping slab beneath the Lough Nafooey arc (Dewey & Ryan 1990; Clift & Ryan 1994) became a N-dipping subduction zone after the Grampian Orogeny.
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