Transcurrent faulting in the Sarawak-Kiri region, Sarawak, East Malaysia
- 1 May 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine
- Vol. 107 (3), 217-224
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800055680
Abstract
Summary Geological discontinuities, lineaments, field observations, and interpreted π-girdles demonstrate a left lateral, NNW trending transcurrent fault in the Sarawak-kiri valley of West Sarawak. Topography and geology also suggest that the fault belongs to an important fracture zone that extends well into Indonesian Kalimantan, and continues in a northerly direction along the edge of the Sunda Shelf beneath the South China Sea. Comparison with transcurrent faulting occuring in the Malay Peninsula and a probable wrench fault between Palawan island and Sabah (North Borneo) reveals the continental part of southeast Asia to have rotated counter-clockwise up to Lower Palaeogene time, probably as a response to spreading of the Pacific ocean floor.Keywords
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- Cretaceous-Tertiary Events in Southeast AsiaGSA Bulletin, 1969