Showing papers by "Indonesian Institute of Sciences published in 1971"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new concept of plate tectonics featuring the Indonesian island arcs as the place of interaction of two or more crustal plates, which could best be used as a basis to explain various physiographical, geological and geophysical phenomena such as the deep submarine trenches, the loop-shaped arc, zonal arrangement of the structural belts, large transcurrent faults, lateral variation of andesitic magma type across the arc and shallow, intermediate and deep earthquakes which exhibit a tendency to have their epicenters farther into the Asiatic continent.