| 31. | He best known for his work on ophiolites, island arcs and the geochemical fingerprinting of rocks and minerals.
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| 32. | As collision continued, the subduction zone steepened, leading to the development of an island arc between the two cratons.
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| 33. | The latter region has been affected by the subduction of a submerged, extinct island arc complex called the D'Entrecasteaux Zone.
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| 34. | The position of Kambalny is also controlled by the margin between the Kurile island arc and the South Kamchatka block.
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| 35. | The oldest rocks associated with the formative cycle of the ANS crust formed by coalescence of Island arcs and plutons.
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| 36. | In island arcs like Japan and the Aleutians, new continental crust is still piling up, but at a geriatric pace.
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| 37. | The Nicobar Islands are part of a great island arc created by the collision of the Indo-Australian Plate with Eurasia.
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| 38. | Southwest of the Iapetus, a volcanic island arc evolved from the early Cambrian ( 540 million years ago ) onward.
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| 39. | The first period of tectonic activity was the accretion of an island arc at some point during the Elzevirian Orogeny.
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| 40. | Parallel to it is the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, which is the volcanic island arc of the same tectonic system.
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