The Phuket-Slate Belt terrane: tectonic evolution and strike-slip emplacement of a major terrane on the Sundaland margin of Thailand and Myanmar

Michael Ridd; Ian Watkinson

doi:doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2013.01.007

The Phuket-Slate Belt terrane: tectonic evolution and strike-slip emplacement of a major terrane on the Sundaland margin of Thailand and Myanmar

Michael Ridd
, Ian Watkinson

Department of Earth Sciences

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Abstract

The Phuket-Slate Belt terrane can be traced for 1700 km from Phuket to Mandalay. It is characterized by very thick Early Permian diamictite and was emplaced by dextral strike-slip faulting in the Late Cretaceous–Palaeogene. Southwards the bounding-fault system extends to Sumatra and aligns with the restored proto-Indian-Ocean India–Australia transform when Greater India was moving towards its collision with Eurasia. This coupling with the north-going India plate resulted in up to about 450 km of dextral shift on the terrane’s bounding fault system. Post-emplacement sinistral movement on the crosscutting Mae Ping and Three Pagodas Faults resulted in the terrane’s present outline.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	994-1010
Journal	Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
Volume	124
DOIs	https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2013.01.007
Publication status	Published - 2013

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