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destructive margin The contact between two lithospheric plates which are moving towards each other and where oceanic crust is being destroyed by subduction. Destructive margins, a type of convergent margin, are marked by shallow-to deep-focus earthquakes and typically andesitic volcanicity, and most are also marked by an oceanic trench. See PLATE MARGIN.

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