Category:Sunda Arc
The Sunda Arc is a volcanic arc that produced the islands of Sumatra and Java, the Sunda Strait and the Lesser Sunda Islands. A chain of volcanoes forms the topographic spine of these islands.
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The Sunda Arc marks an active convergent boundary between the East Eurasian plates that underlie Indonesia, especially the Sunda Plate and the Burma Plate, with the India and Australian Plates that form the seabed of the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. The Sunda Arc is a classic example of a volcanic island arc, in which all the elements of such geodynamic features can be identified.
The India and Australian Plates are subducting beneath the Sunda and Burma plates along the Sunda Arc. The tectonic deformation along this subduction zone in the Java Trench (also known as the Sunda Trench) caused the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake of December 26, 2004.
Media in category "Sunda Arc"
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2000 Sumatra earthquake.jpg 454 × 475; 64 KB
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Geology indonesia map.jpg 2,051 × 1,273; 560 KB
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Merapi dibalik Merbabu.jpg 6,000 × 4,000; 7.98 MB
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Sumatra quake September 12, 2007.jpg 612 × 717; 137 KB
