Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
Authors: S. Poynter, A. Goldberg, D. Hearty
Date Published: August 2013
Number of Pages: 23
Abstract:
The Timor accretionary wedge developed in response to the Neogene collision of the Australian Plate with the Banda Arc. New 2D and 3D seismic data acquired offshore Timor-Leste have been used to investigate the sedimentary and structural features of the synorogenic section. The PlioPleistocene Viqueque Group crops out along the southern coast of Timor, and is a regressive predominantly clastic bathyal to neritic succession. In the offshore area the section thickens considerably to more than five km and has been deposited in normal fault-controlled mini-basins above the thrusted and highly imbricated Cretaceous–Miocene Kolbano Group.