The Banda Arc (main arc, Inner, and Outer) is a dual chain of islands in eastern Indonesia that is around 2,300 km long. It is the result of the collision...
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The Banda Sea (Indonesian: Laut Banda, Portuguese: Mar de Banda, Tetum: Tasi Banda) is one of four seas that surround the Maluku Islands of Indonesia,...
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Lesser Sunda Islands. The Sunda Arc begins at Sumatra and ends at Flores, and is adjacent to the Banda Arc. The Sunda Arc is formed via the subduction of...
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Rote Island (category Outer Banda Arc)
is the youngest island of the Banda Fore Arc. The Banda Fore Arc is an accretionary wedge forming in response to an arc continent collision between oceanic...
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same plate, or back-arc extension Northeastern Japan Arc, an island arc Banda Arc, a set of island arcs in Indonesia Continental arc, in geology a continental...
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Timor (category Outer Banda Arc)
Sulawesi. Timor is the principal island of the Outer Banda Arc, which is being uplifted by arc-continent collision with the Australian continent. Timor...
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Indo-Australian plate is the main driver for deformation seen in the nearby Sunda-Banda Arc system. The strain that is created within this system results in shortening...
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Weber Deep (redirect from Banda Detachment.)
connected to the Pacific Ocean, near the Maluku Islands of Indonesia in the Banda Arc. Weber Deep differs from other deep sea points in that Weber Deep is not...
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subduction zone. This includes the Eastern Anatolian collision zone and Banda Arc–Australian collision zone. List of tectonic plate interactions R Gök,...
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the back arc region of the Sunda-Banda Arc, which is related to the ongoing subduction of the Australian Plate beneath the Sunda and Banda Sea Plates...
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Komodo (island) (category Inner Banda Arc)
Komodo (Indonesian: Pulau Komodo pronounced [koˈmodo]) is one of the 17,508 islands that comprise the Republic of Indonesia. It is particularly notable...
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Barat Daya Islands (category Inner Banda Arc)
Islands Layoni (Teun Island) The islands are part of the Inner Banda Arc, a volcanic island arc created by the collision of the Indo-Australian Plate and the...
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Ambon Island (category Outer Banda Arc)
Hilman (15 September 2021). "Active fault mapping in the onshore northern Banda Arc, Indonesia: Implications for active tectonics and seismic potential"....
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Flores (category Inner Banda Arc)
tectonic regions, with the Sunda Trench to the south and the Flores back-arc thrust fault to the north. As a result, the island experiences many earthquakes...
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consist of two concentric island arcs. The Inner Banda Arc is made up of young, active volcanic islands, including the Banda Islands, Serua Island, Nila Island...
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Leihitu (category Outer Banda Arc)
Leihitu is the major portion of Ambon Island in the Maluku Province of Indonesia. It includes the larger share of the land area of the island, only excluding...
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Ndao Island (category Outer Banda Arc)
Ndao is one of the southernmost islands of the Indonesian archipelago. It is part of Lesser Sunda Islands and is located west of the island of Rote Island...
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Pamana Island (category Outer Banda Arc)
Pamana Island (Dana, Dona, Ndana) is a small island off Rote Island in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province of Lesser Sunda Islands, and the southernmost...
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Seram Island (category Outer Banda Arc)
few other adjacent islands, such as Saparua, Haruku, Nusa Laut and the Banda Islands. Seram is traversed by a central mountain range, the highest point...
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‘Ō‘ō 700 2,297 Hawaii, United States Krafla 650 2,133 Iceland Banda Api 640 2,100 Banda Arc, Indonesia Mount Iya 637 2,090 Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia...
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Alor Archipelago (category Inner Banda Arc)
the Strait of Alor, lies the western part of Timor. To the north lies the Banda Sea. To the west lies Lembata and then the rest of the Sunda Islands. Alor...
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paralleled by the Inner Banda Arc, a series of active and extinct volcanic islands, including neighboring Wetar. The islands in the Banda Arc are arranged in...
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P.; Seeber, Leonardo (2008). "From Subduction to Collision: The Sunda-Banda Arc Transition". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 89 (6): 49...
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2019 Sunda Strait earthquake: magnitude 6.9 Banda Arc List of islands of Indonesia Plate tectonics Sunda Arc Sunda Islands Greater Sunda Islands Lesser...
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Subduction (redirect from Arc-trench complex)
crustal rocks, which leads to less buoyancy. One study of the active Banda arc-continent collision claims that by unstacking the layers of rock that...
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migration of Australia and subduction of the Pacific Plate. The Outer Banda Arc was accreted along the northwestern edge the continent; it includes the...
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Sunda Islands (category Volcanic arc islands)
Islands Tanimbar Islands Banda Arc Komodo (island) List of islands of Indonesia Malay Archipelago Nusantara (archipelago) Sunda Arc Sundaland Sunda Trench...
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situated north of Dili, on the extinct Wetar segment of the volcanic Inner Banda Arc, between the Indonesian islands of Alor and Wetar. The nearest island...
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Lesser Sunda Islands (category Volcanic arc islands)
Prefecture) Banda Arc Greater Sunda Islands List of islands of Indonesia List of rivers of Lesser Sunda Islands Oceanic trench Plate tectonics Sunda Arc Sundaland...
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Semau (category Outer Banda Arc)
Semau, also known as Pusmau and Pasar Pusmau, is an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is located 20 miles off the harbor of Kupang. The...
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