Figure 1. Map of study area in Solomon island arc (island areas are black; area of Ontong Java oceanic plateau (OJP) is gray; barbs indicate overriding side of subduction plate boundaries; MA = Malaita anticlinorium, pelagic rocks offscraped from Ontong Java Plateau and accreted to Solomon island arc; individual straight lines are MCS lines; open circles are OBS's deployed and recovered on long transect line; open triangle is one OBS not recovered). ISC hypocenters occurring in the area of the three rectangles are plotted on dashed centerline as profiles in Figure 2. Inset map shows tectonic setting of the Solomon island arc formed on obliquely convergent plate boundary between the Pacific plate and Australia plate. Rates and directions of the Pacific plate relative to the Australia-India plate are in cm/yr.

From:
Mann, P., Coffin, M., Shipley, T., Cowley, S., Phinney, E., Teagan, A., Suyehiro, K., Takahashi, N., Araki, E., and Miura, S., 1996, Researchers investigate fate of oceanic plateaus at subduction zones: EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 77, no. 30, July 23, 1996, p. 282-3.

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