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Subduction vs Subductive - What's the difference?

subduction | subductive |

As a noun subduction

is the action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.

As an adjective subductive is

(geology) of, related to, or caused by tectonic plate subduction.

subduction

English

(wikipedia subduction)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
    • (geology) The process in which one tectonic plate moves beneath another and sinks into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
  • The act of subducting or taking away.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • Arithmetical subtraction.

    • Derived terms

    * subduction zone

    See also

    * obduction

    subductive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (geology) Of, related to, or caused by tectonic plate subduction
  • * 1983 , H. G. Owen, Atlas of Continental Displacement: 200 Million Years to the Present , Cambridge University Press (1983), ISBN 0521258170, page 21:
    • From the Turonian onward, the earlier tensional phase is replaced by a compressive and perhaps subductive phase, as Greater India was displaced relatively northward.
  • * 1999 , Peter Wilton Johnsont, Glyphs and Gallows: The Rock Art of Clo-oose and the Wreck of the John Bright , Heritage House Publishing (1999), ISBN 1895811945, page 43:
    • [Vancouver Island's] long, thin land mass was pushed up from the seabed to heights of over 7,000 feet by the relentless, subductive grinding of the Pacific Plate, which is slowly slipping beneath the continent upon which Canada stands.
  • * 2000 , Richard C. Selley, Applied Sedimentology , Academic Press (2000), ISBN 0126363757, page 355:
    • These typically occur in subductive troughs and it is apparent, both from their petrology and regional setting, that graywackes are often derived from the rising island arcs of volcanic origin.
  • * 2009 , S.B. Bhagwat, Foundation of Geology, Volume 1 , Global Vision Publishing House (2009), ISBN 978-81-8220-276-4, page 539:
    • The proposed land-based subductive waste disposal method disposes of waste in a subduction zone accessed from land, and therefore is not prohibited by international agreement.