subduction

Preposition: of

• plate: These areas of volcanic activity are caused by subduction of tectonic plates.

Converse of object

• call: The slippage occurred along 750 miles of the line where the Indian plate slides under the Burma plate, a process called subduction.

Modifies a noun

• zone: The Indian plate dives beneath the smaller plates along a line called a subduction zone.
• earthquake: This is best illustrated by the case of large subduction zone earthquakes.
• process: It was a secondary effect of the subduction process.
• quake: How about a shattering subduction quake in Pacific Northwest of U.S.
• fault: It is hoped that the seismic data will also allow us to distinguish between submarine volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occurring along subduction fault lines.
• system: This upper bound is consistent with the residual oceanic topography anomalies above subduction systems.