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Describe what a subduction zone is and how subduction is related to the movement of lithospheric plates.

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boundaries mark the collision between two of the planet's tectonic plates. The plates are pieces of crust that slowly move across the planet's surface over millions of years. ... At a subduction zone, the oceanic crust usually sinks into the mantle beneath lighter continental crust
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