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CEINTURE CIRCUM-PACIFIQUE [1 record]

Record 1 2002-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vulcanology and Seismology
  • Tectonics
  • Oceanography
DEF

The great-circle belt that borders the Pacific Ocean along the continental margins of Asia and the Americas, and meets the Eurasian-Melanesian belt in the Celebes.

CONT

... the circum-Pacific orogenic belts ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Volcanologie et sismologie
  • Tectonique
  • Océanographie
CONT

Le cercle circumpacifique dessine une bande remarquablement étroite mais où la densité des grands séismes est très élevée; il est jalonné par le Kamtchatka, la guirlande des îles Kouriles, la côte orientale du Japon [...]

CONT

La plupart des chaînes circumpacifiques datent de l'ère secondaire [...]

Key term(s)
  • cercle péripacifique
  • région péripacifique
  • région circumpacifique
  • domaine péripacifique
  • ceinture circumpacifique

Spanish

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