| Only the thinner, denser slabs of oceanic crust will subduct, however. |
| As the plates subduct they tend to lock with the overriding plate, thereby building up tectonic strain. |
| Hence it is difficult in this case to subduct water through the thermohaline circulation. |
| Simultaneously, the vast Tethyn oceanic crust, to its northeast, began to subduct under the Eurasian plate. |
| Thus, as oceanic lithosphere formed by supercontinent dispersal ages, it has a tendency to subduct, possibly at fracture zones. |
| The earthquake was of type subduction mechanism, where Indian-Australian plate subduct to the Eurasian plate. |
