Hellenic Arc

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The Hellenic Arc is a prominent tectonic and volcanic arc in the eastern Mediterranean where the African Plate subducts beneath the Eurasian Plate, forming deep-sea trenches and active seismic zones south of Greece.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf tectonic arc
volcanic arc
adjacentTo Aegean Sea
Ionian Sea
Libyan Sea
associatedWith Aegean volcanic arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc

Hellenic subduction zone
countryBorder Egypt
Greece
Libya
Turkey
extendsFrom Ionian Sea
extendsTo area south of Rhodes
formedBy subduction of African Plate beneath Eurasian Plate
geologicalAge Cenozoic
hasFeature active seismic zone
back-arc basin
deep-sea trench
volcanic islands
hasMaximumDepth over 5000 m in trench areas
hasPart Cretan Arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc

Hellenic Trench
Peloponnese segment
Rhodes segment
hasProcess arc volcanism
crustal deformation
seismicity
subduction
locatedIn eastern Mediterranean Sea
locatedSouthOf Greece
nearbyVolcanicCenter Methana
Milos
Nisyros
Santorini
orientation roughly arcuate from Ionian Sea to eastern Mediterranean
partOf Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt
plateInvolved Aegean microplate
linked to: Aegean Sea Plate

African Plate
Eurasian Plate
relatedHazard large earthquakes
submarine landslides
tsunamis
researchField marine geology
plate tectonics
seismology
seismicActivity high
tectonicSetting convergent plate boundary
volcanicActivity active to dormant

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Calypso Deep featureOf Hellenic Arc
Hellenic Trench partOf Hellenic Arc system
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Hellenic Trench underlies Hellenic Arc
Hellenic Trench associatedWith Hellenic volcanic arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Hellenic subduction system locatedIn Hellenic Arc region
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Hellenic subduction system associatedWith Aegean volcanic arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Aegean Sea Plate associatedWith Aegean volcanic arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Aegean Sea Plate associatedWith South Aegean volcanic arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Aegean Sea Plate associatedWith Hellenic volcanic arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Hellenic Arc hasPart Cretan Arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Hellenic Arc associatedWith Aegean volcanic arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Strait of Kythira locatedIn Hellenic Arc region
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Nisyros partOf Hellenic volcanic arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Hellenides associatedWith Hellenic Arc
Thera partOf Hellenic Volcanic Arc
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Sea of Thessaly (Aegean Sea coast) geologicalSetting Hellenic arc and Aegean region
linked to: Hellenic Arc
Ionian Basin boundedBy Hellenic Arc
Myrtoan Sea belongsTo Hellenic arc region
linked to: Hellenic Arc