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  • Island Arc is a peer-reviewed quarterly scientific journal that was established in 1992, covering "Earth Sciences of Convergent Plate Margins and Related...
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    release or decompression partial melting. On the subducting side of the island arc is a deep and narrow oceanic trench, which is the trace at the Earth's...
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    the island arc complex's progression, trench rollback will take place, and by consequence, extension of the overriding plate will occur to allow the island...
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    The Scotia Arc is the island arc system forming the north, east and south border of the Scotia Sea. The northern border, the North Scotia Ridge, comprises...
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    the Western and Eastern Somali Basins to the north and northeast by the island arc from the northern tip of Madagascar, the Farquhar Islands, the Amirante...
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    issue: Philippine Geology". The Island Arc. 9 (4): 457. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1738.2000.00293.x (inactive July 29, 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive...
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    boundary with the Philippine Sea Plate, forming the Ryukyu Trench and the island arc that forms the Ryukyu Islands. The Okinawa Plate is bounded on the western...
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  • Cordilleran margin, possibly caused by the closure of the basin between the island arc of Sonomia and the North American continent. Evidence of this event...
    13 KB (1,584 words) - 12:09, 16 May 2024
  • oceanic trench roll-back which leads to a zone of extension parallel to the island arc. A passive margin built out over a weaker layer, such as an overpressured...
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    Geochemistry of late Cenozoic lavas on Kunashir Island, Kurile arc. The Island Arc 19, 86e104. Martynov, A.Yu., Kimura, J.I., Martynov, Yu.A., Rybin, A...
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  • Kentriodontidae) from the Middle Miocene Takinoue Formation, Hokkaido, Japan. The Island Arc 3:473-485 R. Kellogg. 1931. Pelagic mammals of the Temblor Formation...
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  • systems of strike-slip faults. The older system, which is parallel with the island arc, is characterized by right-lateral faults, and was active on King George...
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  • (Mammalia; Cetacea; Mysticeti) from western North America and Japan". The Island Arc. 3 (4): 392–431. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00122.x. "L. G. Barnes...
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    Allodesminae in the North Pacific Ocean: Systematics and relationships". The Island Arc. 3 (4): 329–360. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00119.x. ISSN 1038-4871...
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    "General aspects of the evolutionary history of whales and dolphins". The Island Arc. 3 (4): 373–391. doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00121.x. OCLC 4643465301...
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    Allodesminae in the North Pacific Ocean: Systematics and relationships. The Island Arc 3:329-360 Robert W. Boessenecker; Morgan Churchill (2018). "The last...
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    Oishi and Y. Hasegawa. 1995. A list of fossil cetaceans in Japan. The Island Arc 3:493-505 Boessenecker, R.W. 2011. Herpetocetine (Cetacea:Mysticeti) dentaries...
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    at some point during the Elzevirian Orogeny. Before the accretion of the island arc took place, subduction between a continental plate and presumably an...
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    formation of extensive carbonates and the end of volcanism and plutonism. The island arc rocks became exposed above the water line and began to erode as an east-west...
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    formation of extensive carbonates and the end of volcanism and plutonism. The island arc rocks became exposed above the water line and began to erode as an east-west...
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