11. Farther to the west, a complex island arc assemblage formed above a subduction zone. 12. Sediments shedding off the island arc settled on top of the previously deposited sequences. 13. The volcanoes may have been similar to island arcs . 14. Baker's work was mainly on volcanoes and volcanic rocks of island arcs and oceanic islands. 15. Rocks of the former group bear geochemical signatures implying island arc and back-arc basin provenance. 16. Collisions between tectonic plates and island arcs lead to loading and flexure of the lithosphere. 17. This island arc separates the Andaman Sea from the main Indian Ocean to the west. 18. (The term " volcanic arc " is often confused with the term " island arc ". 19. Wadati Benioff zone earthquakes develop beneath volcanic island arcs and continental margins above active subduction zones. 20. Cascade Range, central Andes ) or another oceanic plate ( island arc volcanism, e . g.
