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The area where one plate sinks into the asthenosphere underneath another plate is known as

a subduction zone
an earthquake boundary
a convection zone
a transform boundary

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a piece of continental crust and a piece of oceanic crust meeting at a convergent boundary

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User Cory Price
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Subduction zone.....This is usually an oceanic plate being subducted beneath a contenental plate as oceanic is less dense.
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