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Andaman Island Arc and Back-Arc Sea

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The 850-km-long chain of islands between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea constitutes the central part of the 5000-km-long Myanmar–Indonesia Mobile Belt related to an active subduction zone. The Andaman Island Arc comprises two nearly parallel arcuate belts. The western arc is represented by more than 300 islands of the Andaman, Nicobar and Mentawai groups. It is made up of Upper Cretaceous–Tertiary flysch, implanted with ophiolites at various structural levels.

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Valdiya, K.S. (2016). Andaman Island Arc and Back-Arc Sea. In: The Making of India . Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25029-8_21

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