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  • In the back-arc region of Japan, volcanoes are clustered along east-west trending zones.

    Featured Articles Fitzgabbro 2010

  • It is not a back-arc spreading centre (there is no forearc subduction zone associated with it etc).

    New Scientist - Online News 2009

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