Tectonics of the New Guinea region

SL Baldwin, PG Fitzgerald… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The New Guinea region evolved within the obliquely and rapidly converging Australian and
Pacific plate boundary zone. It is arguably one of the most tectonically complex regions of …

Post 8 Ma reconstruction of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands: Microplate tectonics in a convergent plate boundary setting

RJ Holm, G Rosenbaum, SW Richards - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are located in a complex tectonic
setting between the converging Ontong Java Plateau on the Pacific plate and the Australian …

[图书][B] Orogenic andesites and plate tectonics

JB Gill - 2012 - books.google.com
Students of a phenomenon as common but complex as andesite genesis often are
overwhelmed by, or overlook, the volume and diversity of relevant information. Thus there is …

[图书][B] Tectonics of the Indonesian region

WB Hamilton - 1979 - books.google.com
11. Seismic structure section across the subduction system of the Java Trench Sections
through the subduction system of southern Sumatra...... 12. Age determinations of granitic …

Cenozoic geological and plate tectonic evolution of SE Asia and the SW Pacific: computer-based reconstructions, model and animations

R Hall - Journal of Asian earth sciences, 2002 - Elsevier
A plate tectonic model for the Cenozoic development of the region of SE Asia and the SW
Pacific is presented and its implications are discussed. The model is accompanied by …

Alpine-style nappes thrust over ancient North China continental margin demonstrate large Archean horizontal plate motions

Y Zhong, T Kusky, L Wang, A Polat, X Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Whether modern-style plate tectonics operated on early Earth is debated due to a paucity of
definitive records of large-scale plate convergence, subduction, and collision in the Archean …

[PDF][PDF] Mesozoic-Cainozoic evolution of Australia's New Guinea margin in a West Pacific context

KC Hill, R Hall - Defining Australia: the Australian Plate as Part of …, 2002 - Citeseer
Australia's northern margin, in New Guinea, is part of a complex convergent plate boundary
between the Indo-Australian Plate, the Pacific Plate, and several other smaller plates …

[PDF][PDF] Neogene history of the Indonesian throughflow

W Kuhnt, A Holbourn, R Hall, M Zuvela… - … -Ocean Interactions within …, 2004 - Citeseer
The tectonic history of the Indonesian Gateway ultimately controlled the long-term evolution
of the throughflow. During the Pliocene, changes in the position and geometry of the inflow …

Arc-continent collision in Banda Sea region

C Bowin, GM Purdy, C Johnston, G Shor… - AAPG …, 1980 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A 2-month marine geophysical study of the Banda arc region was conducted in late 1976
using the R/V Atlantis II of WHOI and the R/V Thomas Washington of SIO; 19 seismic …

The geology of New Guinea-the cordilleran margin of the Australian continent

HL Davies - Episodes Journal of International Geoscience, 2012 - episodes.org
Abstract The island of New Guinea is the mountainous margin of the Australian continent.
Paleozoic and Proterozoic Australian craton extends northward beneath the shallow waters …