Short description: Convergent plate boundary along the eastern margin of the Lesser Antilles island arc
Locator map of the Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles subduction zone is a convergent plate boundary on the seafloor along the eastern margin of the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc. In this subduction zone, oceanic crust of the South American Plate is being subducted under the Caribbean Plate.
References
- Deep structure of an island arc backstop, Lesser Antilles subduction zone, Christeson et al, (2003) Journal of Geophysical Research, V.108, p.2327
Major seismically active faults of North America |
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North America
(crosses national borders) |
- Aleutian Trench (US-RU)
- Basin and Range Province (US-MX)
- Canadian Arctic Rift System (CA-GL)
- Cascadia subduction zone (US-CA)
- Clarendon-Linden fault system (US-CA)
- Denali Fault (US-CA)
- Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province (CA-US)
- Puget Sound faults (US-CA)
- Rio Grande rift (US-MX)
- San Andreas Fault (US-MX)
- Southern Great Lakes Seismic Zone (US-CA)
- Tintina Fault (US-CA)
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| Canada |
- Charlevoix Seismic Zone
- Laurentian Slope Seismic Zone
- Leech River Fault
- Queen Charlotte Fault
- Saguenay Graben
- Saint Lawrence rift system
- Timiskaming Graben
- Western Quebec Seismic Zone
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| United States | | Washington and Oregon |
- Brothers Fault Zone
- Olympic-Wallowa Lineament
- Puget Sound (Seattle Fault, Tacoma Fault)
- Walker Lane
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| California |
- Calaveras Fault
- Garlock Fault
- Hayward Fault Zone
- Mendocino Fracture Zone
- Newport–Inglewood Fault
- Puente Hills Fault
- Rose Canyon Fault
- San Jacinto Fault Zone (Elsinore Fault Zone)
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| Great Basin |
- Independence Valley fault system
- Moab Fault
- Teton Fault
- Wasatch Fault
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| Great Plains |
- Central Oklahoma Fault Zone
- Humboldt Fault
- Long Point–Eureka Heights fault system
- Meers Fault
- Nemaha Fault Zone
- Wilzetta Fault
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| Midwest |
- Marianna Fault
- New Madrid Seismic Zone
- Sandwich Fault Zone
- Wabash Valley Seismic Zone
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Appalachian Mountains
and Atlantic Coast |
- Aiken-Augusta Fault
- Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone
- Middleton Place-Summerville Seismic Zone (Woodstock Fault)
- Northern Appalachians Seismic Zone
- Ramapo Fault
- Virginia Seismic Zone
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| Caribbean & Mexico |
- Cayman Trough
- Chixoy-Polochic Fault
- Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone (Cuba)
- Gulf of California Rift Zone
- Lesser Antilles subduction zone
- Middle America Trench (Central America)
- Motagua Fault (Central America)
- Pedro Miguel Fault
- Puerto Rico Trench
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