This process can occur in Cascadia and the Ring of Fire.
The flat-slab type of this process can cause flux melting, while its "steep-slab" type occurs at areas of little to no buoyancy. It can lead to forearcs and the formation of back-arc basins. A deep region that can be formed because of it is the Wadati-Benioff zone, and another result of this process is the (*) lowering of the lithosphere. This process can occur in Cascadia and the Ring of Fire. For 10 points, name this geological process in which a plate tectonic slides under another plate tectonic.
The flat-slab type of this process can cause flux melting, while its "steep-slab" type occurs at areas of little to no buoyancy.
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