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Figure 3
(a) Earth's principal earthquake belts (white, with recent
epicentres shown by dots; (b) active volcanoes (dots), including the
location of those named in the text. Clusters of island volcanoes, not
named individually, are enclosed in brackets. The dashed line
marks the 'andesite line', separating oceanic basaltic volcanoes
from arc-continent andesite, dacite and rhyolite volcanoes.
Sources: (a) After Barazangi and Dorman (1969), (b) after Duff (1993).
