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Basalts erupted along the Tongan fore arc during subduction initiation: Evidence from geochronology of dredged rocks from the Tonga fore arc and trench

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Meffre, Sebastian, Falloon, Trevor J., Crawford, Tony J., Hoernle, Kaj, Hauff, Folkmar, Duncan, Robert A., Bloomer, Sherman H., and Wright, Dawn J.

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A wide variety of different rock types were dredged from the Tonga fore arc and trench between 8000 and 3000 m water depths by the 1996 Boomerang voyage. ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar whole rock and U-Pb zircon dating suggest that these fore arc rocks were erupted episodically from the Cretaceous to the Pliocene...

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and Gillis [2001] (dredges 94, 96, 99, 101, 105, 106, 108, 111–113). Clift et al. [1998] and Wright et