However, this new research focused on the Atlantic plate, and more specifically, the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc, located at the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea. It is part of a subduction zone ...

A 2,500 km long line of volcanoes, with 80 volcanic mountains and 41 historically active ... Plate beneath the North American Plate creating the Aleutian trench and volcanic island arc (Credit ...

It's a transition boundary where the Caribbean Plate moves east and the North American Plate moves west. In between are smaller subduction zones such as the Lesser Antilles subduction zones and ...

The volcano was dormant for decades but started to become active in December ... Most of the Lesser Antilles islands are part of a long volcanic arc in the Eastern Caribbean.

Show more The volcanic islands of the Lesser Antilles, built by eruptions and shaped by the ocean surrounding them, are some of the most biodiverse landscapes of the Caribbean, where humans have ...

However, this research focused on the Atlantic plate, and more specifically, the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc, located at the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea. “This is one of only two zones that ...