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Title: | Asia: South-East | Contributor(s): | Metcalfe, Ian (author) | Publication Date: | 2005 | DOI: | 10.1016/B0-12-369396-9/00395-6 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5955 | Abstract: | East and South-east Asia is a giant 'jigsaw puzzle' of allochthonous continental lithospheric blocks and fragments (terranes) that are bounded by suture zones (representing the remnants of closed ocean basins) or by geological discontinuities such as major strike-slip faults (Figure 1). The complex assemblage of South-east Asian continental terranes, accretionary complexes, ophiolites, volcanic arcs, and marginal ocean basins occurs in the zone of convergence between the Eurasian, Indo-Australian, and Pacific plates (Figures 2 and 3). In this region, two important biogeographical boundaries are recognized: the extant Wallace's Line and the Late Palaeozoic Gondwana-Cathaysia Divide (see Figures 1, 2, and 3). Wallace's Line marks the boundary between Eurasian faunas and floras to the north-west (including tigers, deer, and woodpeckers) and Australasian faunas and floras to the south-east (including wallabies, possums, and cockatoos) and was recognized by and named after Alfred Russel Wallace, now regarded as the Father of Biogeography. | Publication Type: | Entry In Reference Work | Source of Publication: | Encyclopedia of Geology, v.1, p. 169-196 | Publisher: | Academic Press | Place of Publication: | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ISBN: | 0126363811 0126363803 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 040313 Tectonics | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 850103 Oil and Gas Exploration | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5dyVRQAACAAJ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8592488 http://www.encyclopediaofgeology.com/ |
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