- 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...
- Martinez, F.; Fryer, P.; Baker, N.A.; Yamazaki, T. (1995). "Evolution of
backarc rifting:
Mariana Trough, 20–24N". J. Geophys. Res. 100 (B3): 3807–3827...
- with
dozens of
transits of the
western basin, and
ranging far into the
backarc of the
Challenger Deep (northward), with
significant excursions into the...
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Robert J.; ****inson,
William R. (2010). "The Gulf of
Mexico is a Jur****ic
backarc basin". Geosphere. 6 (6): 739–754. Bibcode:2010Geosp...6..739S. doi:10...
- Sc****art, WP; Moresi, L (2013). "A New
Driving Mechanism for
Backarc Extension and
Backarc Shortening Through Slab
Sinking Induced Toroidal and Poloidal...
- the
continuing subduction of the
India plate beneath the
Burma plate,
backarc spreading saw the
formation of the
marginal basin and
seafloor spreading...
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results in shortening, with the
greatest concentration in the
forearc and
backarc.
Active shortening is
occurring within the
Banda Orogen. The eastern, southern...
- the
stable Caribbean Plate. In the late Cretaceous, an
oceanic trench or
backarc system formed in
connection with a
subduction zone,
situated where the...
- "Peridotites and
gabbros from the
Parece Vela
backarc basin:
Unique tectonic window in an
extinct backarc spreading ridge", Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems...
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classifications include intracratonic, rift, p****ive margin, strike-slip, forearc,
backarc-marginal sea, fold and
thrust belt, and
foreland basins.
Sedimentary basin...
