Backarc Basins

'The book is loaded with new data and observations that collectivley provide important new insights into the subject.' Science 'This volume will be appreciated by a wide spectrum of the geological community...it provides a major source of reference for the key backarc systems of the modern ocean floor.' Geological Magazine

• 1 Taupo Volcanic Zone and Central Volcanic Region: Backarc Structures of North Island, New Zealand.- 2 The Southern Havre Trough: Geological Structure and Magma Pedogenesis of an Active Backarc Rift Comple.- 3 The Geology of the Lau Basin.- 4 The North Fiji Basin: Geology, Structure, and Geodynamic Evolution.- 5 Tectonics, Magmatism, and Evolution of the New Hebrides Backarc Troughs (Southwest Pacific).- 6 Geology of the Mariana Trough.- 7 Tectonic Framework of the East Scotia Sea.- 8 Bransfield Strait, Antarctic Peninsula: Active Extension behind a Dead Arc.- 9 Structural and Kinematic Evolutions of the Okinawa Trough Backarc Basin.- 10 Shikoku Basin and Its Margins.- 11 Opening Tectonics of the Japan Sea.- 12 Kuril (South Okhotsk) Backarc Basin.- 13 Hydrothermal Activity Related to Arc-Backarc Magmatism in the Western Pacific.- 14 Tectonic and Magmatic Controls on Backarc Basin Sedimentation: The Mariana Region Reexamined.