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- noun geology A region of raised rock
debris which forms between thesubduction zone and any associatedvolcano or volcanic chain.
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The evolving morphologic, structural, and tectonic elements of a subduction zone's submerged forearc points to its past history of having repeatedly discharged giant earthquakes and tsunamis.
USGS Newsroom 2009
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It is not a back-arc spreading centre (there is no forearc subduction zone associated with it etc).
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