Tectonic evolution of the Malay Peninsula inferred from Jurassic to Cretaceous paleomagnetic results

Otofuji, Yo–ichiro; Moriyama, Yuji T.; Arita, Maiko P.; Miyazaki, Masanari; Tsumura, Kosuke; Yoshimura, Y; Shuib, Mustaffa Kamal; Sone, Masatoshi; Miki, Masako; Uno, Koji; Wada, Yutaka; Zaman, Haider

doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.10.007

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“…Such constraints are sparse in SE Asia. This may be reflected by strongly divergent reconstructions of Cenozoic vertical axis rotations of Sundaland including clockwise (CW) rotations of 10–35° (Lee & Lawver, ; Replumaz & Tapponnier, ; Royden et al, ), counterclockwise (CCW) rotations of 5–30° (Hall, ; Richter et al, ), or both (Metcalfe, ; Otofuji et al, ). Much of this variation depends on the interpretation whether Sundaland was rigidly attached to Indochina or whether it rotated relative to Indochina.…”

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“…Paleomagnetic data may constrain the amount and timing of rotation of Borneo and Sundaland, with the caveat of potential remagnetization, as shown for Peninsular Malaysia (Otofuji et al, ; Richter et al, ). Paleomagnetic data show that post‐Jurassic ~90° CCW rotation affected at least some of the terranes of Borneo (Fuller et al, ; Schmidtke et al, ; Sunata & Wahyono, ; Wahyono & Sunata, ).…”

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Cenozoic Rotation History of Borneo and Sundaland, SE Asia Revealed by Paleomagnetism, Seismic Tomography, and Kinematic Reconstruction

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Marshall

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SE Asia comprises a heterogeneous assemblage of fragments derived from Cathaysia (Eurasia) in the north and Gondwana in the south, separated by suture zones representing closed former ocean basins. The western part of the region comprises Sundaland, which was formed by Late Permian‐Triassic amalgamation of continental and arc fragments now found in Indochina, the Thai Penisula, Peninsular Malaysia, and Sumatra. On Borneo, the Kuching Zone formed the eastern margin of Sundaland since the Triassic. To the SE of the Kuching Zone, the Gondwana‐derived continental fragments of SW Borneo and East Kalimantan accreted in the Cretaceous. South China‐derived fragments accreted to north of the Kuching Zone in the Miocene. Deciphering this complex geodynamic history of SE Asia requires restoration of its deformation history, but quantitative constraints are often sparse. Paleomagnetism may provide such constraints. Previous paleomagnetic studies demonstrated that Sundaland and fragments in Borneo underwent vertical axis rotations since the Cretaceous. We provide new paleomagnetic data from Eocene‐Miocene sedimentary rocks in the Kutai Basin, east Borneo, and critically reevaluate the published database, omitting sites that do not pass widely used, up‐to‐date reliability criteria. We use the resulting database to develop an updated kinematic restoration. We test the regional or local nature of paleomagnetic rotations against fits between the restored orientation of the Sunda Trench and seismic tomography images of the associated slabs. Paleomagnetic data and mantle tomography of the Sunda slab indicate that Sundaland did not experience significant vertical axis rotations since the Late Jurassic. Paleomagnetic data show that Borneo underwent a ~35° counterclockwise rotation constrained to the Late Eocene and an additional ~10° counterclockwise rotation since the Early Miocene. How this rotation was accommodated relative to Sundaland is enigmatic but likely involved distributed extension in the West Java Sea between Borneo and Sumatra. This Late Eocene‐Early Oligocene rotation is contemporaneous with and may have been driven by a marked change in motion of Australia relative to Eurasia, from eastward to northward, which also has led to the initiation of subduction along the eastern Sunda trench and the proto‐South China Sea to the south and north of Borneo, respectively.

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Cenozoic Rotation History of Borneo and Sundaland, SE Asia Revealed by Paleomagnetism, Seismic Tomography, and Kinematic Reconstruction

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Marshall

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“…Here, we propose a tectonic model: During the Middle Triassic, the Sibumasu Terrane was located at a palaeolatitude of 15–18°N with trend of E–W and was subsequently rotated CW by ~90° as a result of the India–Asia collision. During this process, the northern margin of the Sibumasu (Baoshan) Terrane experienced a northward displacement of 9.8 ± 6.1°, corresponding to a southward displacement of 13.1 ± 6.1° (Table ) for the southern margin (Malaysia Peninsular; Otofuji et al, ), whereas the central part (Shan State) does not show significant latitude displacement (this study, Table ). All the latitude displacements are estimated with respect to its present‐day geographic position.…”

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“…Zhao et al () argued that the northern margin of the Sibumasu Terrane (Baoshan) was located at a palaeolatitude of 15.3°N in the Late Triassic and underwent a clockwise (CW) rotation of 90° after the India–Asia collision. More recently, the palaeomagnetic study on the Jurassic–Cretaceous redbed sandstones of the Tembeling Group in Malaysia Peninsular (Otofuji et al, ) indicates that the Malaysia Peninsula was located at a palaeolatitude of ~17°N (reference site: 4.0°N, 102.5°E) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous times, it experienced a CW rotation of 61.1° ± 11.9° with a 13.3° ± 8.1° southward displacement caused by the India–Asia collision after 55 Ma. Then, the Malaysia Peninsula experienced an additional counter clockwise (CCW) rotation of 18.5° ± 5.0° to its present location attributed to the collision between Australia and SE Asia after 30–20 Ma.…”

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“…Zhao et al (2015) argued that the northern margin of the Sibumasu Terrane (Baoshan) was located at a palaeolatitude of 15.3°N in the Late Triassic and underwent a clockwise (CW) rotation of 90°after the India-Asia collision. More recently, the palaeomagnetic study on the Jurassic-Cretaceous redbed sandstones of the Tembeling Group in Malaysia Peninsular (Otofuji et al, 2017) indicates that the Malaysia Peninsula was located at a palaeolatitude (Richter & Fuller, 1996) Note. The Watson and Enkin test (1993): the optimum concentration is achieved at 108% unfolding.…”

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A palaeomagnetic study of the Middle Permian and Middle Triassic limestones from Shan State, Myanmar: Implications for collision of the Sibumasu Terrane and Indochina Terrane

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We report herein a new palaeomagnetic study on the Middle Permian and Middle Triassic limestones from Shan State of eastern Myanmar, aiming to resolve the spatial location of the Sibumasu Terrane during the collision of tectonic blocks in Southeast Asia and to constrain the timing of convergence between the Sibumasu Terrane and Indochina Terrane. Based on the rock magnetic and palaeomagnetic experiments, three stable characteristic remnant magnetizations are recognized from limestone specimens of Middle Permian and Middle Triassic age. The characteristic Component C of the Middle Permian limestone passed the fold test at 95% confidence level, indicative of a pre‐folding origin. The mean direction of this component is D = 10.7°, I = 17.9° (κ = 130.3, α95 = 10.8°) before and D = 13.7°, I = −25.3° (κ = 1894.9, α95 = 2.8°) after tilt correction, corresponding to a palaeomagnetic pole at 254.1°E, 53.2°N (A95 = 1.7°). This suggests that the Sibumasu Terrane was placed at a palaeolatitude of ~13.0°S during the Middle Permian. The Component C separated from the Middle Triassic samples also passed the fold test with a mean direction of D = 207.3°, I = −8.3° (κ = 12.9, α95 = 6.2°) before tilt correction and D = 205.6°, I = −33.5° (κ = 27.1, α95 = 4.2°) after tilt correction, corresponding to a palaeomagnetic pole at 187.3°E, 65.8°N (dp/dm = 2.7°/4.8°). This implies that the Sibumasu Terrane was located at a palaeolatitude of ~18.3°N during the Middle Triassic. Based upon the detailed palaeomagnetic analysis, this study supports the view that the collision of the Sibumasu Terrane and Indochina Terrance occurred during or before the Middle–Late Triassic times.

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The Cenozoic hyper-oblique collision zone of Indochina: A re-appraisal of escape tectonics

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Wang

2023

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Tectonic evolution of the Malay Peninsula inferred from Jurassic to Cretaceous paleomagnetic results

Cited by 12 publications

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Cenozoic Rotation History of Borneo and Sundaland, SE Asia Revealed by Paleomagnetism, Seismic Tomography, and Kinematic Reconstruction

Cenozoic Rotation History of Borneo and Sundaland, SE Asia Revealed by Paleomagnetism, Seismic Tomography, and Kinematic Reconstruction

A palaeomagnetic study of the Middle Permian and Middle Triassic limestones from Shan State, Myanmar: Implications for collision of the Sibumasu Terrane and Indochina Terrane

The Cenozoic hyper-oblique collision zone of Indochina: A re-appraisal of escape tectonics

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