What features are often in the fore-arc region

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Assignment:

1. The ITCZ make a 'groove' in the radiation balance of our planet. What makes this "groove" in net incoming (shortwave-light) radiation at top of the atmosphere? ...in outgoing (longer wavelength) radiation?

2. What features are often in the fore-arc region?

3. What factors might influence the angle of descent of a subducting plate?

4. How did the angle of descent of the subducting plate change during the mesozoic to Tertiary Evolution of California/Western US?

5. Why is Nevada twice as wide as it used to be at the beginning of the Tertiary?

Reference:

1) How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Charles H. Langmuir, Wally Broecker. 2012

2) California's Amazing Geology by Donald R. Prothero. 2017.

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