Unlike standard subduction, in which a tectonic plate descends beneath another plate into Earth, flat slab subduction is a process in which a tectonic plate descends to depths of about 30 to 60 ...

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Scientists observed subduction as well as a process known as flat-slab rollback, which is "when the subducting plate retreats back to the surface." The processes led to the lithosphere ...