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To: JimSEA

Ah, because it’s an island arc formed by a subduction zone? Duh...


6 posted on 11/23/2016 11:53:28 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Axenolith
Ah, because it’s an island arc formed by a subduction zone? Duh...

Correct. The Indonesian Archipelago is the same way, and so is off the west coast of North America from Eureka, CA all the way to the north end of Vancouver Island.

11 posted on 11/23/2016 12:00:39 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Axenolith

The Pacific Northwest is also sitting on top of a subduction zone with many associated volcanoes and long ago portions were island chains but the three major plates are neither that constantly active or complex. New Zealand is more similar. Indonesia is even far more complex and more active/violent.


33 posted on 11/23/2016 5:33:19 PM PST by JimSEA
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