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What phenomenon describes the sinking of denser oceanic crust beneath lighter continental crust (or another oceanic plate)?
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Uplift
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- Uplift
- Subduction
- Rifting
- Accretion
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Subduction is a geological process in which a tectonic plate moves under another plate at a convergent boundary, typically occurring at oceanic trenches.
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