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    The back-arc region is the area behind a volcanic arc. In island volcanic arcs, it consists of back-arc basins of oceanic crust with abyssal depths, which...
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    A back-arc basin is a type of geologic basin, found at some convergent plate boundaries. Presently all back-arc basins are submarine features associated...
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    Forearc (redirect from 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...
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  • Greece Back-arc basin, a subsided region caused by back-arc extension Back-arc region, the region created by back-arc extension, containing all the basins...
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    K2O/Na2O ratio in comparison to other parts of Sunda Arc. The most salient volcanoes in the back-arc region are Lasem, Muria, and Bawean in which their volcanic...
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    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...
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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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    back arc region parallel to the trench, a transect spanning the trench, fore arc and back arc region, and a transect spanning the Ryukyu volcanic arc...
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    are all examples of arc volcanoes. Arcs are also associated with most ore deposits. Beyond the volcanic arc is a back-arc region whose character depends...
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    Lesser Antilles is an example). The fore-arc basin forms between the fore-arc ridge and the island arc; it is a region of undisturbed flat-bedded sedimentation...
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    The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre...
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    the process of back-arc extension began, probably stimulated by pressure from the Arabian Plate compressing the region behind the arc. The extension deformed...
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    belt – The Southern Chaco Foreland Basin in northern Argentina Back-arc basin Back-arc region Forearc basin Passive margin Allen et al. 2004 Allen & Allen...
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    Shear Zone: Evidence for Dextral Transtension in the South Aegean Back-Arc Region, Greece". Geosciences. 11 (5). Basel, Switzerland: MDPI: 216. Bibcode:2021Geosc...
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    Ikeda Y. & Umino N. (2004). "Late Cenozoic tectonic development of the back arc region of central northern Honshu, Japan, revealed by recent deep seismic...
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  • manga's "Swordsmith Village" arc was announced. The third season, titled Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Swordsmith Village Arc, adapts from the 12th volume...
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    A xenon arc lamp is a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp, an electric light that produces light by passing electricity through ionized xenon...
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  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Mugen Train Arc, is a seven-episode recompilation of the "Mugen Train" arc as featured in the 2020 anime film. It contains...
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  • sediments and Miocene volcanic rocks. Volcanoes there are part of the back-arc region of the Andean Central Volcanic Zone, where volcanism is caused by the...
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    African Plate. North-south extension within the Aegean Sea Plate in the back-arc region compensate the subduction rate. Shallow crustal earthquakes within...
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    Ikeda Y. & Umino N. (2004). "Late Cenozoic tectonic development of the back arc region of central northern Honshu, Japan, revealed by recent deep seismic...
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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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    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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  • an anime series remake for Netflix, restarting from the East Blue story arc, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original anime series. The remake...
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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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    other. The Aegean Sea area is thought to be an actively extending back-arc region due to slab rollback on the Hellenic subduction zone. This has resulted...
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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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  • Arc of a Diver is the second solo studio album by singer/multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood. Released in 1980, Winwood played all of the instruments...
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    region encompasses. The most commonly used modern definition of Appalachia is the one initially defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC)...
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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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