If that happens, slab pull could draw the oceaniccrust under the continent, actually causing the Americas to move eastward toward Europe and the ocean floor to get smaller.
若果真如此,岩板拉力会将海洋地壳拖拽到大陆之下,实际上会使美洲大陆向东移动靠近欧洲,海床也会缩小。
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Inthis article, the relationship of ODP with the research of oceaniccrust is discussed.
本文论及了ODP与大洋地壳研究的关系。
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But geophysicists had thought that great subduction-zone earthquakes happened only where younger oceaniccrust scrapes its way into the mantle.