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Fish from the Upper Devonian of the Shan-Thai terrane indicate proximity to east Gondwana and south China terranes
John A. Long,Clive Burrett +1 more
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The first discovery of abundant Devonian vertebrates from Thailand is reported in this article, where an unusual form of coronodontid shark tooth with six equal-sized cusps is found only in the Upper Devonian of Thailand (Shan-Thai terrane) and south China, and a new species of Phoebodus is reported that occurs elsewhere only in south China and Australia (east Gondwana terrane).Abstract:
We report the first discovery of abundant Devonian vertebrates from Thailand An unusual form of coronodontid shark tooth with six equal-sized cusps occurs only in the Upper Devonian of Thailand (Shan-Thai terrane) and south China, and a new species of Phoebodus is reported that occurs elsewhere only in south China and Australia (east Gondwana terrane) The occurrence of the chondrichthyan Harpagodens ( Thrinacodus ) ferox Turner 1982 in the Late Devonian of Thailand, Australia, and south China predates the appearance of this species in Euramerica (early Carboniferous) These data suggest Late Devonian proximity of the Shan-Thai, south China, and east Gondwana terranes, and is in accord with recent paleomagnetic dataread more
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Gondwanaland dispersion, Asian accretion and evolution of eastern Tethys∗
TL;DR: Most east and southeast Asian continental blocks, comprising North and South China, Indochina, Qaidam, Tarim, and Hainan Island Terranes, had their origins on the northern margin of Gondwanaland as mentioned in this paper.
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Pre-Cretaceous evolution of SE Asian terranes
TL;DR: A wide range of geological and geophysical data has led to the recognition of various continental terranes in SE Asia which, on tectonostratigraphic, palaeobiogeographic and palaeomagnetic grounds are "suspect" or allochthonous in nature.
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The configuration of Greater Gondwana—Evidence from LA ICPMS, U–Pb geochronology of detrital zircons from the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic of Southeast Asia and China
Clive Burrett,Clive Burrett,Khin Zaw,Sebastien Meffre,Chun-Kit Lai,S Khositanont,Pol Chaodumrong,Mongkol Udchachon,Samuel Ekins,Jacqueline A. Halpin +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, detrital zircons from samples of Palaeozoic to Mesozoic sedimentary rocks have been collected in Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and China, dated by the LA ICPMS, U-Pb technique and assigned to tectonic terrans or regions within terranes.
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Nature, diversity of deposit types and metallogenic relations of South China
TL;DR: The South China Region is rich in mineral resources and has a wide diversity of deposit types as discussed by the authors, making it one of the most resource-rich regions in the world, and the region has undergone multiple tectonic and magmatic events and related metallogenic processes throughout the earth history.
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Age, geochemistry and tectonic setting of Buqingshan ophiolites, North Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China
Qian-Tao Bian,Di-Hui Li,I. Pospelov,Leiming Yin,Hong-Sheng Li,Da-Sheng Zhao,Cheng-Fa Chang,Xiao-Quan Luo,Shan-Lin Gao,O. Astrakhantsev,N. Chamov +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors determined that Early Paleozoic and Early Carboniferous-Early Permian ophiolites are present in the Buqingshan Ophiolite complex, which consists of metaperidotite, gabbro, diabase, pillow basalt, massive basalt and pelagic sedimentary rocks including radiolarian chert.
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Origin and assembly of south-east Asian continental terranes
TL;DR: The pre-Tertiary continental core of south-east Asia is a composite of at least four tectonostratigraphic terranes; Sibumasu (Shan States of Burma, north-west Thailand, Peninsular Burma and Thailand, Western Malaya, and north-western Sumatra), Indo-China (east Thailand, Laos, Vietnam south-west of the Song Ma-Song Da zone and Kapuchea), East Malaya (including southeast Sumatra and Natuna) and southwest Borneo) as discussed by the authors.
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Evolution of the southern margin of Tethys (North Australian region) from early Permian to late Cretaceous
TL;DR: The identification of the Australia-New Guinea rifted continental margin in what is now the fold and thrust mountain belt of New Guinea, islands of the Outer Banda Arc, East Sulawesi, and Buton, rests largely on stratigraphic correlation and the recognition of the pre-rift sequence, breakup unconformity, and the post-breakup marine transgression and prolonged subsidence in these now highly deformed rocks as mentioned in this paper.
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Plate tectonics and the fusion of Asia
TL;DR: In this paper, it is suggested on the basis of palaeogeographical, palaeontological and tectonic evidence that Asia did not fuse completely until well into the Mesozoic.
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Paleomagnetism of Upper Devonian reefal limestones, Canning basin, Western Australia
N. F. Hurley,R. Van Der Voo +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the Smith and Hallam reconstruction for Gondwana is used, the paleomagnetic pole calculated for the Late Devonian of Western Australia agrees with the Msissi Norite result from Morocco, and suggests that an ocean still separated the northern continents from the Gneiguira supergroup in Mauritania in the late Devonian.
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South East Asia as a part of an Ordovician Gondwanaland—a palaeobiogeographic test of a tectonic hypothesis
Clive Burrett,Bryan Stait +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the Ordovician sequences and faunas of Sibumasu and Australia and found that the relatively stenogeographic nautiloids of the two areas are remarkably similar and have a Simpson Index of 0.92 at the generic level.