Übersetzung für '
island arc' von Englisch nach Deutsch
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- A hypothesis based on research conducted on the Bay of Islands complex in Newfoundland suggests that an irregular continental margin colliding with an island arc complex causes ophiolite generation in a back-arc basin and obduction due to compression.
- It is located in the Leeward Islands in the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, a partly volcanic island arc.
- Anguilla (and the wider Anguilla Bank) is of volcanic origin, lying on the Lesser Antilles volcanic island arc, and tuffs and volcaniclastic breccias of Eocene age are exposed locally on the island.
- Its orography and geological structure are imperfectly known. One theory is that Sakhalin arose from the Sakhalin Island Arc.
- The Cayman Rise extends from southeastern Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough toward Costa Rica and resulted from Paleocene to Eocene island arc formation with associated volcanism along an extinct subduction zone.
- Heat generated from the Farallon Plate subducting below the North American Plate led to the creation of an island arc of volcanoes on the west coast of proto-North America between the late Devonian and Permian periods.
- Borneo was formed through Mesozoic accretion of microcontinental fragments, ophiolite terranes and island arc crust onto a Paleozoic continental core.
- Geological Survey described the main features of island arc subduction in the Aleutian Islands.
- Aruba is a generally flat, riverless island in the Leeward Antilles island arc of the Lesser Antilles in the southern part of the Caribbean.
- Dunite is rarely found within continental rocks, but where it is found, it typically occurs at the base of ophiolite sequences where slabs of mantle rock from a subduction zone have been thrust onto continental crust by obduction during continental or island arc collisions (orogeny).
- Magmatism in island arc regions comes from the interplay of the subducting plate and the "mantle wedge", the wedge-shaped region between the subducting and overriding plates.
- They make up the axis of the Indonesian island arc system produced by northeastward subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate.
- The archipelago comprises 11 main islands forming an island arc running north–south, the largest being Montagu at [...].
- The Caribbean Sea is separated from the ocean by several island arcs of various ages.
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