Abstract
In Chapter 6 we considered the simplest type of subduction-related magmatism produced as a consequence of the subduction of one oceanic plate beneath another. Now we shall focus our attention on the more complex case in which the overriding plate is a continental one. Magmas generated in this tectonic environment occur along the west coast of the Americas, Japan, Sumatra, Alaska, New Zealand and the Aegean (Fig. 7.1).
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Wilson, M. (2007). Active continental margins. In: Igneous Petrogenesis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9388-0_7
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