forearc

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A region of raised rock debris which forms between the subduction zone and any associated volcano or volcanic chain.
    — These offshore Sonoman mountains likely formed an orogenic (mountainous) barrier to moisture inland, resulting in a mountain-shadow onshore desert punctuated by regional annual and large basin perennial streams draining into a forearc saline sea.

词形变化

forearcs plural

词源

Etymology tree
English fore-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos
Proto-Italic *arkuos
Latin arcus
Old French arcbor.
Middle English ark
English arc
English forearc
From fore- + arc.
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