island arc

The volcanoes may have been similar to island arcs.

An island arc was formed on the northern end of the 900 km long trench.

Island arc, the geographical and geological feature that the journal takes its name from.

The result will be a new slow-growing island arc.

These sediments accumulate within the basins on either side of an island arc.

In most island arcs only a relatively small proportion of the individual volcanoes actually rise above sea level.

Offshore volcanoes form islands, resulting in a volcanic island arc.

It is part of an island arc.

For example the formation of volcanoes or island arcs at convergent plate boundaries.

The first stage melting typically forms island arc basalt.

These island arcs may be added to a continent during an orogenic event.

A possible example of such a continent - island arc collision is provided by northern New Guinea.

Interbeded between these layers were volcanic deposits, probably from an island arc.

Farther to the west, a complex island arc assemblage formed above a subduction zone.

The belts formed at ancient oceanic spreading centers and in volcanic island arcs.

Behind this island arc was a new ocean, the Ural Ocean.

The western coast of North America is made of accreted island arcs.

The second category is closely related to oceanic trenches and their associated island arcs or mountain belts.

The crust forms in part by the coming together of island arcs including granite and metamorphic fold belts.

Mount Mazama is part of the Cascade Range island arc.

It covered many small plates, Cretaceous island arcs and microcontinents.

Many of these are composed of volcanoes, and can thus be further classified as volcanic island arcs.

Honshu itself is formed from the island arc developed over the subducting plate.

Such back-arc spreading is analogous to that encountered behind some intra-oceanic island arcs.

The trench gives rise to the island arc Aleutian Islands where it runs through the open sea.