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Between 625 and 550 Ma, a subduction zone initiated in the Paleoasian Ocean between Baltica and Gondwana. The subduction produced a string of volcanic island arcs off the coast of Gondwana, including the Carolina Terrane, Avalonia microcontinent, and Gander Terrane. [7] It is unclear whether the arc formed on oceanic or continental crust. [5]
The territory of "South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands" was formed in 1985; [2] previously, both archipelagos had been governed as part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies. On 10 February 2008, an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the Richter Scale had its epicenter 205 km south-southeast of Bristol Island . [ 3 ]
Most island arcs originate on oceanic crust and have resulted from the descent of the lithosphere into the mantle along the subduction zone. They are the principal way by which continental growth is achieved. [1] The Ryukyu Islands form an island arc. Island arcs can either be active or inactive based on their seismicity and presence of ...
Bathymetry of the Scotia Arc. The Scotia Arc is the island arc system forming the north, east and south border of the Scotia Sea.The northern border, the North Scotia Ridge, comprises (from west to east): Isla de los Estados at the tip of Tierra del Fuego, the Burdwood, Davis, and Aurora Banks; the Shag, South Georgia Island and Clerke Rocks.
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They form an island arc running north–south in the region 56°18'–59°27'S, 26°23'–28°08'W, between about 350 and 500 mi (300 and 430 nmi; 560 and 800 km) southeast of South Georgia. The archipelago comprises Candlemas , Vindication , Saunders , Montagu , Bristol , Bellingshausen , Cook and Thule discovered by Cook, and Thule.
Located between Wassaw Island and the Ogeechee River on the north and St. Catherines Island on the south, the island is not linked to the mainland by bridge or causeway. At 26,000 acres (11,000 ha), it is the third-largest barrier island off the coast of Georgia.
The geological Piedmont includes metamorphic rocks of the Dadeville Complex, an Ordovican arc terrane that lay seaward of the North American continental margin and a fringing back-arc basin. It also includes rocks of the Opelika Complex, which are considered to be stratigraphic equivalents of rocks in the eastern Blue Ridge of Georgia and Alabama.