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    SEA - Tectonic Origins

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    This document summarizes the tectonic framework of mainland Southeast Asia in 3 sentences: Southeast Asia is composed of several continental fragments that were assembled through successive rifting and collision events from the Paleozoic to Cenozoic eras. Major tectonic events included the rifting of Indochina in the Devonian and rifting of regions like West Burma in the Late Triassic. The region experienced collisions along suture zones like the Song Ma and Ailaoshan faults in the Early Carboniferous and the Changning-Menglian and Sagaing faults in the Late Triassic and Late Cretaceous, respectively.

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    This document summarizes the tectonic framework of mainland Southeast Asia in 3 sentences: Southeast Asia is composed of several continental fragments that were assembled through successive rifting and collision events from the Paleozoic to Cenozoic eras. Major tectonic events included the rifting of Indochina in the Devonian and rifting of regions like West Burma in the Late Triassic. The region experienced collisions along suture zones like the Song Ma and Ailaoshan faults in the Early Carboniferous and the Changning-Menglian and Sagaing faults in the Late Triassic and Late Cretaceous, respectively.

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    This document summarizes the tectonic framework of mainland Southeast Asia in 3 sentences: Southeast Asia is composed of several continental fragments that were assembled through successive rifting and collision events from the Paleozoic to Cenozoic eras. Major tectonic events included the rifting of Indochina in the Devonian and rifting of regions like West Burma in the Late Triassic. The region experienced collisions along suture zones like the Song Ma and Ailaoshan faults in the Early Carboniferous and the Changning-Menglian and Sagaing faults in the Late Triassic and Late Cretaceous, respectively.

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    This document summarizes the tectonic framework of mainland Southeast Asia in 3 sentences: Southeast Asia is composed of several continental fragments that were assembled through successive rifting and collision events from the Paleozoic to Cenozoic eras. Major tectonic events included the rifting of Indochina in the Devonian and rifting of regions like West Burma in the Late Triassic. The region experienced collisions along suture zones like the Song Ma and Ailaoshan faults in the Early Carboniferous and the Changning-Menglian and Sagaing faults in the Late Triassic and Late Cretaceous, respectively.

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    MAINLAND SOUTHEAST

    ASIA (INDOCHINA)
    China

    Yunnan province

    Myanmar Laos

    Thailand Vietnam

    Cambodia

    Malaysia

    Sumatra
    H.B. Ruelo
    Dec 2000
    TECTONIC FRAMEWORK - SOUTHEAST ASIA
     an area of complex interaction between several
    megatectonic blocks or terranes

     a collage of dominantly continental plate fragments


    with Pre-Cambrian basements, which juxtaposed
    each other via successive rift-drift-amalgamation events,
    whose profound interaction in time (from Early Paleozoic
    - Cenozoic) and space produced

     a variety of sources of mineralizing constituents and


    the pathways along which these constituents moved
    from their sources to the sites of mineral deposition
    INDOCHINA TECTONIC HISTORY
    EARLY - MIDDLE PALEOZOIC LATE PALEOZOIC - EARLY MESOZOIC LATE MESOZOIC - EARLY CENOZOIC

    MAGMATISM

    PALAEO- MESO-TETHYS NEO-TETHYS


    BASINAL MARINE TETHYS
    SEDIMENTATION + RIFT-SAG

    Early Permian Rifting


    of Sibumasu Late Triassic suturing along
    Changning-Menglian, Nan-Uttaradit,
    Early Carboniferous Sra Keo and raub Bentong
    Mid-late Devonian Rifting suturing along
    of Indochina Song Ma and Ailaoshan

    RIFT - DRIFT - SUTURING


    TECTONIC EVENTS

    1 2 3
    Late Triassic Rifting
    of West Burma

    Late Cretaceous suturing


    along Sagaing

    ARCHAEN PRTZOIC CAMBRIAN ORDOV SILU DEVON CARBONIFEROUS PERMIAN TRIASSIC JURASS CRETACEOUS

    PRE-CAMBRIAN PALEOZOIC MESOZOIC CENOZOIC


    Myanmar
    Yunnan
    INDOCHINA REGION :
    Laos
    Vietnam MAJOR TECTONIC FRAMEWORK
    Thailand

    Cambodia
    Malaysia China

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    am
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    do
    Indonesia Yunnan province

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    N 3 SOUTH CHINA PLATE

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    DIA E Laos
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    P BURMA
    Myanmar PLATE 1 Major Suture Events / Zones
    SHAN-THAI PLATE

    2
    Vietnam 1 Early Carboniferous
    Thailand suturing along
    INDOCHINA PLATE
    Song Ma (Red River) and
    Ailaoshan Faults

    2 Late Triassic suturing along


    Cambodia Changning-Menglian, Uttara
    dit, Sra Keo and R. Bentong
    Malaysia
    3 Late Cretaceous suturing
    IN

    along Sagaing Fault zone


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