Sentence examples for Back arc from inspiring English sources

This study area consists of fold-and-thrust fault belts, distributed in the back arc in northeast Japan.

The oblique nature of the collision provides a way to quantify the spatial and temporal distribution of strain from the deformation front to the back arc.

Ar Ar and U Pb ages constrain the back arc volcanism to have evolved between 163.9 ± 1.4 and 148.9 ± 1.2 Ma.

Results suggest that a possible rotation of stress direction from N40E-S40W to N-S occurred during the post-Miocene history of the Java back arc tectonic evolution.

Aeromagnetic data suggests that this basin may be imposed on a Ross age back arc region adjacent to the East Antarctic Craton.

and continued serpentine breakdown contributes to the Cl enrichment of back arc basin basalts (Kendrick et al., 2011).

A back-arc basin is formed by the process of back-arc spreading, which begins when one tectonic plate subducts under (underthrusts) another.

Back-arc basin, submarine basin that forms behind an island arc.

They are also found in volcanic "back-arc" basins behind ocean trenches, where one tectonic plate is sliding beneath another.

(Spreading centres that form in back-arc basins are much shorter than those found along oceanic ridges, however).

There are two kinematic models of back-arc opening.