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    Forearc (redirect from Fore-arc basin)
    ridge known as an outer arc ridge that parallels the volcanic arc. A forearc basin between the accretionary wedge and the volcanic arc can accumulate thick...
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    in the 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...
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    Sunda Trench, and separates the accretionary complex of the fore-arc, from the fore-arc basin. This fault is the result of the oblique subduction nature...
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    plate bends and forms a fore-arc basin in front of the overriding plate – an elongated, deep asymmetric basin. Fore-arc basins are filled with deep marine...
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  • including passive margins, aulacogens, fore-arc basins, foreland basins, intercontinental basins and pull-apart basins. Three mechanisms are common in the...
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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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    1016/0040-1951(91)90288-4. van Dijk, Janpieter (1992). "Late Neogene fore-arc basin evolution in the Calabrian Arc (Central Mediterranean). Tectonic sequence stratigraphy...
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    S2CID 4430026. van Dijk, J.P. (1992, d); Late Neogene fore-arc basin evolution in the Calabrian Arc (Central Mediterranean). Tectonic sequence stratigraphy...
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    arc with continental melts. The island of Timor is notable for the lack of volcanic activity. This is due to the island representing the zone of fore-arc...
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    2006, p. 1120. van Dijk, J.P. (1992). "Late Neogene fore-arc basin evolution in the Calabrian Arc (Central Mediterranean). Tectonic sequence stratigraphy...
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  • with fore-arc and back-arc settings) within the Gokurakudaira Formation. In their model, the formation of a spreading center within a fore-arc basin above...
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  • 500 km beneath the Tyrrhenian basin. Between the upper slope of the trench and Calabria are a number of small fore-arc basins that developed through extensional...
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    Reviews, 277, 1-201. van Dijk, J.P. (1992); Late Neogene fore-arc basin evolution in the Calabrian Arc (Central Mediterranean). Tectonic sequence stratigraphy...
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    Antarctic Peninsula was the site of an active volcanic arc, with deposition of a fore-arc basin sequence. Included in that sequence is a 2–3 km succession...
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  • fore-arc basin. The South Shetland Islands are bisected by two systems of strike-slip faults. The older system, which is parallel with the island arc...
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  • formed in fore-arc environments, typically during the early stages of subduction. The rock is named for its occurrence in the Izu-Bonin arc south of Japan...
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    arc segment has no back-arc basin, inter-arc rift, or rear-arc cross chains. The Mariana segment is characterized by an actively spreading back arc basin...
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    1306/St31524C8 MacDonald; Leat; Doubleday; Kelly (1999). "On the origin of fore-arc basins: New evidence of formation by rifting from the Jurassic of Alexander...
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    Weber Deep (redirect from Weber Basin)
    Indonesia in the Banda Arc. Weber Deep differs from other deep sea points in that Weber Deep is not a deep sea trench, but is a forearc basin, a deep abyssal...
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    K. Nyein, M.; Maung, P. H. (1998). "Polyphase Deformation in a Fore-Arc/Back-Arc Basin, Salin Subbasin, Myanmar (Burma)". AAPG Bulletin. 82 (10). ISSN 0149-1423...
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  • the belt is Cambrian oceanic crust which was formed in a back arc basin or a fore arc basin. An ancient shoreline of Australia, called the cratonic margin...
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  • Helmut P. Echtler. 2009. Segmentation of megathrust rupture zones from fore-arc deformation patterns over hundreds to millions of years, Arauco peninsula...
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    the Tonga Trench. The region between the Tonga trench and the Lau back-arc basin, the Tonga-Kermadec Ridge, moves independently from the Australian and...
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    Germán (2005-08-30). "Isotope-tracking of pore water freshening in the fore-arc basin of the Japan Trench". Marine Geology. 219 (2): 71–79. Bibcode:2005MGeol...
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    stresses during the breakup of Gondwanaland. The basin later underwent fore-arc and intra-arc basin development, due to the subduction of the Pacific...
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  • forming a basin. Both rift-related subsidence and post-rift thermal subsidence are found in the South China Sea. In the eastern area, a fore-arc basin was formed...
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    arc, has been dated to 28.5 Ma. The South Sandwich Islands fore-arc originated in the Central Scotia Sea and was translated eastward by the back-arc spreading...
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    continental margin colliding with an island arc complex causes ophiolite generation in a back-arc basin and obduction due to compression. The continental...
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  • and Butterworth, P.J., 1993. Giant slide deposits from a Mesozoic fore-arc basin, Alexander Island, Antarctica. Geology, 21(11), pp.1047-1050. Butterworth...
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  • text-figures 1-9. van Dijk, J.P. (1992, d); Late Neogene fore-arc basin evolution in the Calabrian Arc (Central Mediterranean). Tectonic sequence stratigraphy...
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