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单词 back-arc
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Definition of back-arc in English:

back-arc

adjective
Geology
  • Relating to or denoting the area behind an island arc.

    back-arc basin
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Like all other Mediterranean back-arc basins, extension in the central Aegean region was superimposed on a thick Alpine orogenic crust, which was shaped in Early Tertiary times.
    • We propose that these sediments were deposited in a forearc or back-arc basin of the Oytag arc.
    • What remains unclear is whether the rocks formed in an open ocean or a marginal back-arc basin associated with a subduction zone.
    • The Kinik rocks have characteristics of ophiolites formed in oceanic or back-arc basins rather than island-arc settings based on a number of observations.
    • Deformation is complex, with normal faulting and strike-slip faulting in the geomorphological back-arc basin.
 
 
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