Definition of Retroarc. Meaning of Retroarc. Synonyms of Retroarc

- 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...
- the North Alpine Foreland Basin of Europe, or the Ganges Basin of Asia Retroarc (Retro) foreland basins, which occur on the plate that overrides during...
- overthrusting and folding. The Acadian foreland basin is categorized as a retroarc foreland basin, which occurs on the overriding continental lithosphere...
- from the Late Carboniferous to the Early Jur****ic. These ac****ulated in a retroarc foreland basin called the "main Karoo" Basin. This basin was formed by...
- Peripheral vs. Retroarc foreland basins...
- mountains caused the continental crust of Southern Africa to sag, forming a retroarc foreland system, into which the Karoo Supergroup was deposited. Eventually...
- foreland younger than Early Ordovician in age were deposited as part of a retroarc and younger foreland basin along the flanks of the growing Appalachian...
- main types: collisional (peripheral), retroarc, and retreating collisional subduction. Collisional and retroarc thrust belts form in collision convergent...
- Subgroup of the Beaufort Group, sediments of which were formed in a large retroarc foreland basin in south-western Gondwana. The biozone is subdivided into...
- part of the Karoo Supergroup its ****ociated rocks were deposited in a retroarc foreland basin. A fault-controlled crustal uplift (orogenesis) in the south...