Sentence examples for island arc from inspiring English sources

island arc -- n.

Roots of exhumed oceanic island arc.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Features of a typical island arc.

If the overriding plate is oceanic, an island arc develops.

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

Akutan is one of the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian island arc.

In these plate subduction areas, island arc-trench systems are well developed.

There was also little available information to image the entire paleo-island arc crust region of the Daito Ridges.

Various types of volcanic rocks have been observed in the areas that were converging island-arc regimes.

In a number of respects, this volcanic belt is similar to an island-arc, but geophysical data lead us to classify the proposed island-arc structure as an intra-continental rift.

Gigantidas horikoshii is distributed in vents in the Izu-Ogasawara Island-arc.