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Complex subduction

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Eastern Indonesia hosts one of the most complex and fascinating tectonic systems on the planet. Palaeogeographical reconstructions indicate that subduction and deformation of a single slab of oceanic crust created the complicated configuration.

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Figure 1: The Banda arc region represents the surface expression of a complex and remarkably curved subduction system.

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  1. Mike Sandiford is in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. mikes@unimelb.edu.au,

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