Late Miocene obduction and microplate migration around the southern Banda Sea and the closure of the Indonesian Seaway

Tectonophysics

Volumn 281, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 17-30

  Linthout, Kees ^a   Helmers, Henk ^a   Sopaheluwakan, Jan ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Banda Arc; Indonesian Seaway; Interarc spreading; Miocene plate tectonics; Obduction

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; OBDUCTION; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

BANDA SEA; INDONESIA;

EID: 0031415078     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00156-X     Document Type: Article

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