Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
Authors: Sabin Zahirovic, Kara Matthews, Ting Yang, Nicolas Flament, Daniela Garrad, Gilles Brocard, Jeremy Iwanec, Kevin Hill, Michael Gurnis, Rakib Hassan, Maria Seton, R Dietmar Müller
Date Published: February 2018
Number of Pages: 6
Abstract:
Southeast Asia experienced a complex tectonic and geodynamic history related to the subduction of the eastern Tethyan ocean basins, resulting from the long-term convergence between the Indo-Australian, Eurasian, and Pacific plates since Pangea breakup. The complex collage of continental and island arc terranes can be reconstructed into an estimated ancient arrangement using plate tectonic reconstruction approaches based on a synthesis of continental and marine geological and geophysical data. We use the opensource and cross-platform software GPlates (www.gplates.org) to refine the evolution of the eastern Neo-Tethys since the latest Jurassic rifting episodes along northern Gondwana.