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...

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...

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...

effect of back-arc extension Hellenic arc, the arc of islands positioned over the Hellenic Trench in the Aegean Sea off Greece Back-arc basin, a subsided...

volcanism in the surrounding volcanic arcs has been called the andesite line. Back-arc basins form behind a volcanic arc and are associated with extensional...

trade. The Pannonian Basin is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system, specifically a sediment-filled back-arc basin which spread apart...

island arcs. Back-arc basin: They are also referred to as marginal seas and are formed in the inner, concave side of island arcs bounded by back-arc ridges...

of a triple junction, an inactive rift zone Back-arc basin – Submarine features associated with island arcs and subduction zones Bimodal volcanism – Eruption...

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...

successively in the eastern portion of the plate to form the other inter-arc basins. Supporters include: Lewis et al. (1982); Seno and Maruyama (1984), Rangin...

downgoing slab, the typical back-arc basin basalts are intermediate in character between MORB type basalts and Island Arc Basalts (IAB) type basalts....

Fiji Basin Colville Ridge It is divided into two segments as the ridge is flanked on its eastern side by two southward propagating back-arc basins, the...

The Lau Basin is a back-arc basin (also addressed as "interarc basin") at the Australian-Pacific plate boundary. It is formed by the Pacific Plate subducting...

melts and creates pressure in the mantle, causing volcanoes to form. Back-arc basins can form from extension in the overriding plate, in response to the...

up basin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Basin may refer to: Depression (geology) Back-arc basin, a submarine feature associated with island arcs and...

subducting oceanic plate is emplaced onto the continental plate) or back-arc basins (regions where the edge of a continent is pulled away from the rest...

known as the Issel Bridge, after Arturo Issel. The Tyrrhenian Sea is a back-arc basin that formed due to the rollback of the Calabrian slab towards South-East...

Subduction at a steeper angle is characterized by the formation of back-arc basins. According to the theory of plate tectonics, the Earth's lithosphere...

01491.x. Sdrolias, Maria; Müller, R. Dietmar (April 2006). "Controls on back-arc basin formation". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 7 (4): 2005GC001090...

continental margin colliding with an island arc complex causes ophiolite generation in a back-arc basin and obduction due to compression. The continental...

flow from the displacement of the slab, can result in formation of a back-arc basin. Several forces are involved in the process of slab rollback. Two forces...

behind the volcanic arc on the overriding plate. The presence of these early-middle Ordovician (480 - 460 million year old) back-arc basin rocks in direct...

The North Fiji Basin (NFB) is an oceanic basin west of Fiji in the south-west Pacific Ocean. It is an actively spreading back-arc basin delimited by the...

at these plate boundaries have formed oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, back-arc basins and volcanic belts. The inclusion of some areas in the Ring of Fire...

North Anatolian Fault system. Back-arc basins form behind many subduction zones due to the effects of oceanic trench roll-back which leads to a zone of extension...

Islands Insular Islands Intermontane Islands Sakhalin Island Arc Back-arc basin Island arc Subduction zone metamorphism Volcanic field Volcanic island...

to have been deposited in arc-related basins, including interarc or back-arc basins, intra-arc basins, and retro-arc basin of active continental margin...

under the childhood nickname, Bab Back-arc basin, a geologic feature: a submarine basin associated with island arcs and subduction zones "Base Attack...

an active back-arc basin in the western Pacific Ocean (Stern, Fouch & Klemperer 2003). It is an integral part of the Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc system. The...

in the Jurassic extensional tectonics created the Rocas Verdes Basin, a back-arc basin whose surviving southeastward extension forms the Weddell Sea....