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What causes slab pull in earths crust

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The process of a tectonic plate descending into the mantle is termed subduction. Slab pull occurs when an oceanic plate subducts into the underlying mantle. Subduction zones are just one type of convergent boundary where two tectonic plates are colliding.

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