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back-arc basin [′bak‚ärk ‚bās·ən]

(geology)

The region (small ocean basin) between an island arc and the continental mainland formed during oceanic plate subduction, containing sediment eroded from both.

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back-arc basin (redirected from Backarc spreading)

back-arc basin
(redirected from Backarc spreading)