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Subduction occurs when an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate. When the oceanic plate does this, it descends into the mantle, and the place where the subduction begins forms a deep-ocean trench.

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It is were to plates are coming together then the one plat just goes underneath the other plate. This happens at a convergent plat boundary.

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