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Article: Cenozoic Plate interaction of the Australia and Philippine Sea Plates: "Hit-and-run" tectonics
Title | Cenozoic Plate interaction of the Australia and Philippine Sea Plates: "Hit-and-run" tectonics |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Australia Cenozoic Tectonics Eurasia Kinematics Marginal Basins New Guinea Paleomagnetics Philippines Sunda Plate |
Issue Date | 2003 |
Publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/tecto |
Citation | Tectonophysics, 2003, v. 363 n. 3-4, p. 181-199 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Recent studies in northwest New Guinea have shown the presence of at least two marginal basins of different age, both of which formed in back-arc settings. The older basin opened between the Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, a remnant of which is now preserved as the New Guinea Ophiolite. Its obduction started at 40 Ma and it was finally emplaced on the Australian margin at ∼ 30 Ma. The younger basin was active during the Oligocene to Middle Miocene and was obducted in the Early Pliocene. Studies of the western edge of the Philippine Sea also reveal an important deformation of the Philippine arc in the Oligocene, which hitherto has remained unexplained. Using information from these systems, paleomagnetic results, kinematic reconstructions and geochemistry of the supra-subduction ophiolite, we present a plate model to explain the region's Eo-Oligocene development. We suggest that an extensive portion of oceanic crust extended the Australian Plate a considerable distance north of the Australian Craton. As Australia began its steady 7-8 cm/year northward drift in the Early Eocene, this lithosphere was subducted. Thus, the portion of the Philippine Sea Plate carrying the Taiwan-Philippine Arc to its present site may have actually been in contact with the ophiolite now in New Guinea and obduction led to deformation of the Philippine Sea Plate itself. Neogene Plate kinematics transported the deformed belt in contact with the Sunda block in the Late Miocene and Pliocene. This interpretation has implications for the origin for the Philippine Sea Plate and the potential incorporation of continental fragments against its boundaries. © 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/151096 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.117 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Pubellier, M | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ali, J | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Monnier, C | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-26T06:17:02Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-06-26T06:17:02Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Tectonophysics, 2003, v. 363 n. 3-4, p. 181-199 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0040-1951 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/151096 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Recent studies in northwest New Guinea have shown the presence of at least two marginal basins of different age, both of which formed in back-arc settings. The older basin opened between the Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, a remnant of which is now preserved as the New Guinea Ophiolite. Its obduction started at 40 Ma and it was finally emplaced on the Australian margin at ∼ 30 Ma. The younger basin was active during the Oligocene to Middle Miocene and was obducted in the Early Pliocene. Studies of the western edge of the Philippine Sea also reveal an important deformation of the Philippine arc in the Oligocene, which hitherto has remained unexplained. Using information from these systems, paleomagnetic results, kinematic reconstructions and geochemistry of the supra-subduction ophiolite, we present a plate model to explain the region's Eo-Oligocene development. We suggest that an extensive portion of oceanic crust extended the Australian Plate a considerable distance north of the Australian Craton. As Australia began its steady 7-8 cm/year northward drift in the Early Eocene, this lithosphere was subducted. Thus, the portion of the Philippine Sea Plate carrying the Taiwan-Philippine Arc to its present site may have actually been in contact with the ophiolite now in New Guinea and obduction led to deformation of the Philippine Sea Plate itself. Neogene Plate kinematics transported the deformed belt in contact with the Sunda block in the Late Miocene and Pliocene. This interpretation has implications for the origin for the Philippine Sea Plate and the potential incorporation of continental fragments against its boundaries. © 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/tecto | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Tectonophysics | en_US |
dc.rights | Tectonophysics. Copyright © Elsevier BV. | - |
dc.subject | Australia | en_US |
dc.subject | Cenozoic Tectonics | en_US |
dc.subject | Eurasia | en_US |
dc.subject | Kinematics | en_US |
dc.subject | Marginal Basins | en_US |
dc.subject | New Guinea | en_US |
dc.subject | Paleomagnetics | en_US |
dc.subject | Philippines | en_US |
dc.subject | Sunda Plate | en_US |
dc.title | Cenozoic Plate interaction of the Australia and Philippine Sea Plates: "Hit-and-run" tectonics | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Ali, J:jrali@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Ali, J=rp00659 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00671-6 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-0037435090 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 80116 | - |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-0037435090&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 363 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 3-4 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 181 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 199 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000182291100002 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Pubellier, M=7003955053 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Ali, J=7102266465 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Monnier, C=7004286828 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0040-1951 | - |