“…In Mediterranean subduction-related basins, contraction of young volcanic basement, formed in an extensional context with limited faulting, occurred during an abrupt change from Miocene extension to convergence in lattermost Miocene and Pliocene (Camafort et al, 2020;Gómez de la Peña et al, 2021), and it is currently accumulating most deformation in the region (Gómez de la Peña et al, 2022). Reactivation of pre-existing tectonic features resulted in local inversion and formation of related anticline-syncline folds (Camafort et al, 2022;Giaconia et al, 2015;Zitellini et al, 2020), resembling deformation observed in the NW Sulu Sea (Figure 2, line SO23-01, CDPs 8000-5900; Figure 6, line SO23-16, CDPs 6500-4000).…”