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- Fore-arc basin)the volcanic arcs that are characteristic of convergent plate margins. A back-arc region is the companion region behind the volcanic arc. Many forearcs...13 KB (1,571 words) - 02:17, 29 April 2025
North American plate also caused a back-arc region of tectonic deformation that spans 700 km from the Aleutian Arc into the interior of Alaska to form...11 KB (1,225 words) - 23:21, 23 May 2025
Arc-trench complex
) into the mantle. A region where this process occurs is known as a subduction zone, and its surface expression is known as an arc-trench complex. The...
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The thrust faults are south-dipping and lie within the back arc region of the Sunda–Banda Arc, which is related to the ongoing subduction of the Australian...
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plate compressing the region behind the arc. The extension deformed the region into its current configuration. First, the arc moved to the south and...
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of Pangea, resulted in subduction rollback and extension across the back-arc region. This generated large amounts of felsic magmatism. These extensional...
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southeastern margin of the Sea of Japan, an area of oceanic crust created by back-arc spreading from the late Oligocene to middle Miocene. The extensional tectonics...
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Department, south of the Mendoza Province in Argentina. It lies in the back-arc region of the Andean Volcanic Belt, and was formed by the subduction of the...
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subduction initiation, where a new subduction zone is created in a back-arc region with the opposite direction of subduction to that previously operating...
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doubled the number of known hydrothermal vent sites in the Mariana Back-arc region and discovered a recently erupted underwater lava field. In 2016, an...
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South Aegean Volcanic Arc. The volcanic arc is approximately 500 km (300 mi) long and 20 to 40 km (12 to 25 mi) wide. The region first became volcanically...
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along a fault located in the back-arc region between the Sunda and Banda island arcs. The Flores Thrust represents a back-arc thrust fault that accommodated...
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the region probably in response to the delamination of the crust beneath the region: Large scale ignimbrites were erupted at Galán and small back-arc volcanoes...
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The Izu–Bonin–Mariana (IBM) arc system is a tectonic plate convergent boundary in Micronesia. The IBM arc system extends over 2800 km south from Tokyo...
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African plate. North–south extension within the Aegean Sea plate in the back-arc region compensates the subduction rate. Shallow crustal earthquakes within...
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- Volume 68 May 1906 (1906) Watkins Glen and Other Gorges of the Finger Lake Region of Central New York by Ralph S. Tarr 1202028Popular Science Monthly Volume
- and Immunization, Rockefeller Foundation, R4D: Results for Development, ARC: African Risk Capacity and Earthshot Prize plus others.She also previously
- the inner arc and back-arc of the LSI. Whilst the rest will be discussed somewhere in this book by another author. III. 1 BACK ARC REGION III.1.1 Introduction