Evolution of the boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and Australia: palaeomagnetic evidence from eastern Indonesia

Ali, Jason R.; Hall, Robert

doi:10.1016/0040-1951(95)00029-1

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“…1) was initiated when the Philippine Sea Plate began its clockwise rotation, at approximately 20 Ma, causing its southern boundary to change from one of subduction to sinistral strike-slip (Ali and Hall 1995;Hall 2002). The Sorong Fault forms the northern margin of the Salawati Basin (Redmond and Koesoemadinata 1976;Phoa and Samuel 1986), which is dominated by east-west folds and a complex interplay of strike-slip and extensional faults (Gibson-Robinson and Soedirdja 1986;Wilson 2006).…”

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Carbonate drowning successions of the Bird’s Head, Indonesia

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BouDagher‐Fadel

2017

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environment. Already foundering carbonate platforms due to environmental deterioration were left vulnerable to submergence and eventually succumbed to drowning. Low rates of carbonate production were outpaced by the rate of relative sea-level rise caused by high-amplitude oscillations in global glacio-eustatic sea-level change and/or regional tectonic subsidence. The duration of the drowning event across the entire Bird's Head region is interpreted to have lasted a duration of approximately 9.5 My, between 18.0 and 8.58 Ma. This has implications when interpreting timings of sedimentary basin fill across western New Guinea and in other basins where carbonate platform drowning is recorded.

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Carbonate drowning successions of the Bird’s Head, Indonesia

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Burgess

BouDagher‐Fadel

2017

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“…9.5 Ma and collision of the Banda Arc with the Australian margin 8-3 Ma (Linthout et al, 1997); (2) regional uplift across the southeast Australian margin in the Late Miocene (Dickinson et al, 2000); and, (3) the apparent termination of tectonic rotation of terranes along the Australia-Philippine Sea plate margin (e.g. Fuller et al, 1999;Ali and Hall, 1995). The rate of northward drift we have calculated is faster than suggested in various tectonic models of Southeast Asia (e.g., Lee and Lawver, 1995).…”

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Paleolatitudes and magnetostratigraphy for Cenozoic sediments, ODP Leg 182: The Great Australian Bight

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Fuller

2014

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Cenozoic northward drift of the Australian plate was determined from paleomagnetism of Middle Eocene through Pleistocene sediment cores from ODP Leg 182 (Sites 1126(Sites , 1128(Sites , and 1134 in the Great Australian Bight. Paleolatitude estimates are based on stepwise AF and thermal demagnetization of ∼400 discrete samples, of which ∼250 provided reliable data. The characteristic magnetization of the sediments resides in magnetite and magnetic sulfides. Middle Eocene through Lower Oligocene (∼36 Ma) paleolatitudes of ∼52• (±2 • ) change gradually to Late Miocene (∼9 Ma) paleolatitudes of ∼48• (±2 • ). These data, combined with Australian paleomagnetic pole data, indicate a slow rate of northward motion through much of the Cenozoic (∼28 mm/yr). These data also indicate an abrupt acceleration in the Late Miocene (drift rate ∼115 mm/yr), coinciding with tectonic events in Southeast Asia. Paleolatitude estimates support Miocene versions of the Australian apparent polar wander path that place the Oligocene-Miocene pole (∼25 Ma) at ∼70• S-125• E and the Late Miocene pole at ∼70 • S-105• E (e.g., Idnurm, 1985Idnurm, , 1994. Inclination data for discrete samples also provide a refined magnetostratigraphy for portions of the Miocene, Oligocene, and Eocene carbonate and siliciclastic section of the Great Australian Bight.

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“…Ozima et al 1977;Shiki et al 1977;Mizuno et al 1979;Tokuyama 1985;Tokuyama et al 1986;Hall et al 1995b;Deschamps & Lallemand 2002;Arculus et al 2015), palaeomagnetic work has cast doubt on the reconstructions on which the original tectonic models were based (e.g. Haston & Fuller 1991;Ali & Hall 1995;Hall et al 1995a, c;Queano et al 2007) and the postulated age difference across the transforms are much larger than those observed anywhere in the current global ridge system (e.g. Norton 2000;Müller et al 2008).…”

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The subduction initiation stage of the Wilson cycle

Hall

2018

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In the Wilson cycle, there is a change from an opening to a closing ocean when subduction begins. Subduction initiation is commonly identified as a major problem in plate tectonics and is said to be nowhere observable, yet there are many young subduction zones at the west Pacific margins and in eastern Indonesia. Few studies have considered these examples. Banda subduction developed by the eastwards propagation of the Java trench into an oceanic embayment by tearing along a former ocean-continent boundary. The earlier subducted slab provided the driving force to drag down unsubducted oceanic lithosphere. Although this process may be common, it does not account for young subduction zones near Sulawesi at different stages of development. Subduction began there at the edges of ocean basins, not at former spreading centres or transforms. It initiated at a point where there were major differences in elevation between the ocean floor and the adjacent hot, weak and thickened arc/continental crust. The age of the ocean crust appears to be unimportant. A close relationship with extension is marked by the dramatic elevation of land, the exhumation of deep crust and the spectacular subsidence of basins, raising questions about the time required to move from no subduction to active subduction, and how initiation can be identified in the geological record.

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Evolution of the boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and Australia: palaeomagnetic evidence from eastern Indonesia

Abstract: The boundary between the Philippine

Cited by 72 publications

References 49 publications

Carbonate drowning successions of the Bird’s Head, Indonesia

Carbonate drowning successions of the Bird’s Head, Indonesia

Paleolatitudes and magnetostratigraphy for Cenozoic sediments, ODP Leg 182: The Great Australian Bight

The subduction initiation stage of the Wilson cycle

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