South Aegean Volcanic Arc
- South Aegean Volcanic Arc
The South Aegean Volcanic Arc is chain of volcanic islands in the South Aegean Sea formed by plate tectonics as an oceanic tectonic plate subducts under another tectonic plate which produces magma. This island arc is one of the most rapidly deforming regions of the Himalyan Alpine mountain belt. ["The South Aegean Active Volcanic Arc: Present Knowledge and Future Perspectives" By Michaēl Phytikas, Georges E. Vougioukalakis, 2005, Elsevier, 398 pages, ISBN 0444520465] One of the most noted volcanic eruptions from this island arc occurred on the island of Santorini in the second millennium BC; during this eruption the Bronze Age city of Akrotiri was destroyed, with archaeological remains becoming well preserved under the volcanic ash. [ [http://themodernantiquarian.com/site/10846/akrotiri.html#fieldnotes C. Michael Hogan, "Akrotiri", The Modern Antiquarian (2007)] ]
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