Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007jgrb..11205101q&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 112, Issue B5, CiteID B05101
Mathematics
Logic
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Geomagnetism And Paleomagnetism: Paleomagnetism Applied To Tectonics: Regional, Global, Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets: Tectonics (8149), Geomagnetism And Paleomagnetism: Rock And Mineral Magnetism
Scientific paper
Results of one of the most comprehensive paleomagnetic and supporting geological programs ever carried out in offshore SE Asia on North Luzon, northern Philippines, are reported. Six new results, based on 66 sites, are reported from a total collection of 243 individual sites. Declinations in the data subset are sometimes scattered, likely reflecting combinations of major plate and local rotations in both clockwise and counterclockwise directions, and thus have a somewhat limited value for tectonic modeling. The inclination data are, however, much more valuable and can be best explained if North Luzon traveled as part of the Philippine Sea Plate for most of its history, a scenario which is compatible with the known geology of the eastern Philippines and broader region. In the proposed model, for all of its Eocene-Pliocene history, North Luzon is placed on the western edge of the Philippine Sea Plate, effectively always just to the west of the site where the Benham Plateau formed ~40 Ma. The paleomagnetic data indicate a substantial northward migration of the area since the start of the Neogene, with an earlier interval stretching back to at least the mid-Early Cretaceous when this part of the plate occupied equatorial latitudes. Post-15 Ma motion of the plate has involved the indentation of the Palawan microcontinental block into the western side of the Philippine Archipelago. Deformations induced by this process offer the most likely explanation for the scattered declinations observed in North Luzon and areas a short distance to the south.
Aitchison Jonathan C.
Ali Jason R.
Milsom John
Pubellier Manuel
Queano Karlo L.
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