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	Island Arcs: World of Earth Science
		An island arc is a curving series of volcanic islands that are created through the collision of tectonic plates in an ocean setting.
		Island arcs are usually accompanied by rapid erosion and sedimentation into accompanying basins.
		The Aleutian Islands, the islands of Japan, and the Lesser Antilles are all examples of island arcs.
	science.enotes.com /earth-science/island-arcs (305 words)

	* Island arc - (GIS): Definition
		A curved chain of islands that rise from the sea floor, usually near a continent.
		Galapagos Islands: An island archipelago in the Pacific Ocean west of the mainland; famed for the studies by Charles Darwin that led to this theory of evolution through natural selection (note: evolution was not a theory original with Darwin;...
		Below is a Landsat view of a segment of Java, the main island in the Indonesian archipelago, a prime example of an island arc terrane still evolving.
	en.mimi.hu /gis/island_arc.html (145 words)

	Unit2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As the name implies, island arcs are typically a curving chain of volcanic islands occurring around the margin of ocean basins.
		The arc is convex toward the ocean and concave toward the continent with a deep trench running parallel to the arc along the convex (ocean) side.
		For example, the Hawaiian Islands are an example of a linear chain of volcanoes in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that is not an island arc.
	www.utdallas.edu /~pujana/oceans/island.html (337 words)

	CVO Website - Volcano Types - Island-Arc, Oceanic, Continental
		Most Alaskan volcanoes are in the Aleutian arc which extends approximately 2,500 kilometers along the southern edge of the Bering Sea and Alaskan mainland.
		Aleutian arc volcanism is the result of subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate.
		Augustine volcano, a postglacial island volcano in lower Cook Inlet, is part of the eastern Aleutian arc.
	vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /Glossary/VolcanoTypes/island_oceanic_continental.html (846 words)

	Wilson Cycle-Stage F: Arc-Continent Collision
		Because an island arc has formed the hinterland mountain the sediments eroded from it are dominantly lithic in composition (volcanic and plutonic igneous as well as metamorphic rock fragments), with varying amounts of sodic plagioclase feldspar from the intermediate igneous rocks.
		But by that time the hinterland (that is, the island arc) is permanently sutured to the Westcontinent (Stage G cross section, left side).
		Westcontinent is now larger because of the island arc-continent collision, but this was possible only because subduction and fractionation created the intermediate and felsic batholiths which compose the core of the volcanic arc, and which have now become part of a larger, sutured continental crust.
	csmres.jmu.edu /geollab/Fichter/Wilson/StageF.html (836 words)

	island arc
		Island arcs are common in the Pacific where they ring the ocean on both sides; the Aleutian Islands off Alaska are an example.
		The volcanism that forms island arcs is a result of subduction of an oceanic plate beneath another plate, as evidenced by the presence of ocean trenches on the convex side of the arc, and the Benioff zone of high seismic activity beneath.
		Such island arcs are often later incorporated into continental margins during mountain-building episodes.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0034987.html (247 words)

	Major Earthquakes in Japan in the 20th Century - Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis
		The Kuril island arc is located between the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
		Sakhalin island, north of Hokkaido, which separates the Sea of Japan from the Sea of Okhotsk, is probably the result of transpressional tectonics along the North America-Eurasia boundary.
		A pair of large magnitude earthquakes occurred north of Hokkaido, in the southern Kuril Islands on the 13 and 19 of October 1963.
	www.drgeorgepc.com /EarthquakesJapan.html (2809 words)

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	Orogenic Andesites
		The Philippine Islands are largely of volcanic origin and extend from the island of Luzon in the north (about 400 miles in length) to Mindanao 600 miles to the SE, of slightly smaller size.
		This is a depression between the Tonga Kermadec Arc, and the arc formed by the Lau Islands east of Fiji.
		The TK arc is however usually thought of as terminating at the southern Kermadec Island group, though the Tongan Trench (and the volcanic activity) continues southward.
	geokem.com /Andesite-3.html (5966 words)

	Northward subduction of the Indian Plate beneath the Kohistan island arc, Pakistan Himalaya: New evidence from isotopic ...
		The intra-oceanic Kohistan island arc was initiated during the Cretaceous as a result of northward movement of the Indian Plate.
		This hypothesis is based partly on the apparent presence of a 'Dupal' signature in mafic rocks of the arc, and partly on the occurrence of boninites exposed in the northern part of the arc.
		The Kohistan island arc was initiated offshore of Asia during the Cretaceous as a result of subduction of Neo-Tethyan oceanic crust during the northward movement of the Indian Plate.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3721/is_200305/ai_n9196004 (906 words)

	Island arc Summary
		An island arc is a type of archipelago formed by plate tectonics as one oceanic tectonic plate subducts under another and produces magma.
		The resulting volcano chain has the shape of an arc parallel to the convergent plate boundary and convex toward the subducting plate.
		On the subducting side of the island arc is a deep and narrow oceanic trench, which is the trace at the Earth’s surface of the boundary between the downgoing and overriding plates.
	www.bookrags.com /Island_arc (524 words)

	Geotimes - March 2002 - Amchitka Island
		The arc is also the locus of more than 90 percent of the seismic energy released within the United States over the period during which records have been kept.
		Eric Geist and colleagues noted in 1988 that the obliquity of subduction increases westward with the curvature of the arc, and that the western Aleutians appear to lie on broken crustal blocks, rotating clockwise and extending westward in the resulting shear zone.
		The new GPS measurements suggest that the island’s boundary with North America is a strike-slip fault north of the island, spreading two-thirds as fast as the San Andreas fault.
	www.geotimes.org /mar02/feature_amchitka.html (2473 words)

	PBS - Harriman: Kristine Crossen -Aleutian Volcanoes and Plate Tectonics
		This volcanic arc delineates the boundary between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates.
		Along the northern and central portion of the arc, the subduction rate is 6-8 cm/yr where the two plates have opposing relative motion.
		But along the extreme southern end of the arc, the two plates slip past each other and volcanic activity is reduced.
	www.pbs.org /harriman/explog/lectures/crossen1.html (714 words)

	MISR Image: Mystery Quiz #14 - Anatahan Island
		Anatahan Island is one of the Northern Mariana Islands in the western tropical Pacific.
		The island is part of an archipelago that was claimed as a territory of one nation in 1920 and of another nation in 1944.
		The evacuation of the island's residents in 1990 was prompted by a shallow earthquake swarm that suggested the possibility of impending volcanic activity.
	eosweb.larc.nasa.gov /HPDOCS/misr/misr_html/mystery14_answer.html (873 words)

	Accreted Terrane
		Both arcs may represent different parts of the same arc or it is possible that the two terranes represent two different arcs with different origins.
		The volcanic arc terranes are similar to the accreted island-arc terranes termed Wrangellia that lie between Alaska and Vancouver Island.
		The Flysch is situated between the volcanic arc and the oceanic crust terrane and is believed to have been compressed against the arc by the oceanic terrane.
	imnh.isu.edu /digitalatlas/geo/accreted/attext/atmain.htm (1000 words)

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	Wilson Cycle-Stage E: Volcanic Arc Mountain Building
		There are just two kinds of locations for subduction zones, however, one within an ocean basin (Island Arc type), the other along the edge of a continent (Cordilleran type).
		Ancient examples are not as obvious because they eventually collide with another island arc or a continent and are hidden, but that is Step F in the model.
		Notice that the ocean basin to the west of the volcanic arc is trapped between the divergent continental margin and the subduction zone.
	csmres.jmu.edu /geollab/Fichter/Wilson/StageE.html (1464 words)

	Island Arc: Earth Sciences of Convergent Plate Margins and Related Topics - Journal Information
		Island Arc attracts an international audience with its prompt publication of peer-reviewed papers on the growing earth geoscience research activities of the western Pacific Rim and Asia.
		Island Arc focuses on the structure, dynamics and evolution of plate convergence zones including trenches, island and continental arcs, back-arc basins and collision zones in modern and ancient settings.
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	Nisyros, Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The island of Nisyros is a stratovolcano at the eastern end of the Hellenic island arc.
		This arc of volcanoes is related to the northward subduction of the African plate beneath the Aegean microplate.
		The base of the island is made of hyaloclastite, lava flows, and breccias, mostly of andesite composition.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/europe_west_asia/nisyros.html (541 words)

	Mt. Pelee, West Indies -- Page 1 of 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Pelee, a stratovolcano made mostly of pyroclastic rocks, is on the north end of the island of Martinique.
		Martinique is part of the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc.
		The arc is formed by the subduction of the North American Plate under the Caribbean Plate.
	volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/img_mt_pelee.html (353 words)

	Department of Earth Science: Research
		The Leeward Antilles (LA) island arc consists from west to east of the Dutch ABC islands (Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire) and the Venezuelan islands (Las Aves, Los Roques, La Blanquilla, La Orchilla, Los Frailes, and Los Testigos).
		Generally, the plate convergence rate in island arcs is partitioned in an arc-normal component (e.g., thrust faults), an arc-parallel component (e.g., strike-slip faults), and an arc-parallel stretching component (e.g., arc-perpendicular normal faults).
		Samples are collected for zircon and apatite fission-track analysis so as to determine whether uplift of the islands is indeed related to the eastward passage of the arc parallel to the South American plate.
	cohesion.rice.edu /naturalsciences/earthscience/research.cfm?doc_id=5082 (341 words)

	Island Arc Formation
		This is an image the ocean floor of the Earth, showing islands being formed.
		Examples of island arcs are the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, shown here.
		2.) The second way in which islands are formed is when there are hot spots in the lithosphere.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/earth/interior/island_formation.html&edu=elem (164 words)

	Plate Tectonics : Island Arcs
		If the upper plate is oceanic, the volcanoes pile up until they poke through the surface of the ocean and form an elegant arc.
		Examples of island arcs created in this way are the Aleutians, the Kuriles, Japan, the Ryukyus, and the Philippines, found clustered around the northern and western borders of the Pacific Plate like a necklace.
		There are other island arcs to the south (Indonesia and the Solomon’s), and although scientists are still puzzled by the exact origin of these southern island arcs, plate subduction is the suspected architect.
	www.platetectonics.com /book/page_13.asp (204 words)

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	Convergent Margins and Subduction
		An example of the first type is the currently active Axial Seamount which lies on the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the coast of Washington.
		Such zones are characterized by chains of trench-parallel volcanoes (volcanic arcs) fed by magmas rising from depths of up to ~100 km.
		Examples of such imagery are available for the back-arc Lau Basin, associated with the Tonga-Kermadec volcanic arc.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~leeman/billarcmaps.html (611 words)

	Secular Geochemistry of Central Puerto Rican Island Arc Lavas: Constraints on Mesozoic Tectonism in the Eastern Greater ...
		Secular Geochemistry of Central Puerto Rican Island Arc Lavas: Constraints on Mesozoic Tectonism in the Eastern Greater Antilles -- JOLLY et al.
		Secular Geochemistry of Central Puerto Rican Island Arc Lavas: Constraints on Mesozoic Tectonism in the Eastern Greater Antilles
		Island arc volcanism in the Greater Antilles persisted for >70
	petrology.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/42/12/2197 (546 words)

	Moffett - Bibliography
		We speculate on the significance of the Paleocene history of Adak Island in the regional development of the Aleutian island arc and the early Tertiary plate-tectonic interaction of the Kula ridge with the Aleutian subduction zone."
		The curving chain of volcanoes from Kiska Island near the western end of the Aleutian Islands to Mt. Spurr on the mainland constitutes one of the Pacific volcanic arcs.
		Romick, J. D., 1990, Silicic volcanism and granulite xenoliths from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska: petrologic constraints for the evolution of the Aleutian Arc crust: Cornell University Ph.D. dissertation, 336 p.
	www.avo.alaska.edu /volcanoes/volcbib.php?volcname=Moffett&sort=title (3482 words)

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