At plate sides opposite from rifts, plates slide under other plates {subduction, plate}|. Plates meet {subduction zone}, and one plate goes up and the other goes down, at 45-degree angles. Plates can go 700 kilometers into mantle. Subduction is at North-America and South-America west coasts, at Asia east coast, and from Spain and north Africa to Italy, to Greece, to Turkey, to India, to Burma, to Celebes.
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