Abstract The Late Cretaceous is a significant geologic period in the South China Sea area,
as it marks the tectonic transition from the early Paleo-Pacific Plate subduction to the …

Southeast Asia is located in an important regional geodynamic intersection zone
surrounded by inward subduction systems on three sides, consisting the largest and most …

Sundaland, the continental core of SE Asia, is a heterogeneous collage of continental blocks
and volcanic arcs bounded by narrow suture zones that represent the remnants of ancient …

Back-arc basins and the related subduction systems have been extensively studied,
however back-arc basins exhibiting episodic jumps of extension centers by the subduction …

Metamorphic and magmatic rocks are present in the northwestern part of the Schwaner
Mountains of West Kalimantan. This area was previously assigned to SW Borneo (SWB) and …

Establishing the location (where), timing (when) and reasons for the development (why) for
the Mesozoic subduction along the western Paleo-Pacific that extended from Coastal South …

Abstract The South China Sea, as 'a non-volcanic passive margin basin'in the Pacific, has
often been considered as a small-scale analogue of the Atlantic. The recent ocean drilling in …

The plate tectonic history of the Junction Region, which separated the Panthalassa and
Tethys realms, is notoriously challenging to reconstruct. The region has been dominated by …

Abstract The Cenozoic Sulu Sea arc‐basin system is situated in the tectonic junction
between the South China Sea (SCS), northern Borneo, Palawan Continental Terrane …

Three-dimensional seismic reflection data, well data, and analogues from areas with
extensive shale tectonics indicate that the enigmatic deepwater “shale nappe or thrust …