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Describe what happens at faults along a subduction zone.

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Where two tectonic plates meet at a subduction zone, one bends and slides underneath the other, curving down into the mantle. (The mantle is the hotter layer under the crust.) Tectonic plates can transport both continental crust and oceanic crust, or they may be made of only one kind of crust.

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Answer:

bends and slides under one another

Step-by-step explanation:

"Where two tectonic plates meet at a subduction zone, one bends and slides underneath the other, curving down into the mantle."

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