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A COROLLARY of lithospheric plate creation on an Earth of stable radius is that plate is also consumed. The island arcs with their phenomena of intense geophysical disturbance form the logical sinks, and the subduction theory of geosynclines has recently been added to the theory of plate consumption at island arcs.
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HATHERTON, T. Plate Consumption: Some Comments from an Island Arc. Nature 234, 294–295 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234294a0
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