The SE Asian gateway
Subtitle: history and tectonics of the Australia-Asia collision
By: edited by R. Hall, M.A. Cottam and M.E.J. Wilson
Contributors: Geological Society of London
Series: Geological Society special publication -- no. 355
Publisher: Geological Society
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9781862393295
Subjects: Structural Geology; Plate tectonics
Other titles: Southeast Asian gateway; History and tectonics of the Australia-Asian collision
Description: Collision between Australia and SE Asia began in the Early Miocene and reduced the former wide ocean between them to a complex passage which connects the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Today, the Indonesian Throughflow passes through this gateway and plays an important role in global thermohaline flow. The surrounding region contains the maximum global diversity for many marine and terrestrial organisms. Reconstruction of this geologically complex region is essential for understanding its role in oceanic and atmospheric circulation, climate impacts, and the origin of its biodiversity. The papers in this volume discuss the Palaeozoic to Cenozoic geological background to Australia and SE Asia collision. They provide the background for accounts of the modern Indonesian Throughflow and oceanographic changes since the Neogene, and consider aspects of the region's climate history.
Notes: Title from PDF title page (Lyell Collection, Geological Society of London Web site, viewed on Dec. 21, 2011).

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: The SE Asian gateway: history and tectonics of the Australia-Asia collision; title: Palaeozoic-Mesozoic history of SE Asia; title: Subsidence and uplift by slab-related mantle dynamics: a driving mechanism for the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic evolution of continental SE Asia?; title: Pre-Cenozoic sedimentary section and structure as reflected in the JavaSPAN crustal-scale PSDM seismic survey, and its implications regarding the basement terranes in the East Java Sea; title: Australia-SE Asia collision: plate tectonics and crustal flow; title: The Java convergent margin: structure, seismogenesis and subduction processes; title: Subducting slab structure below the eastern Sunda arc inferred from non-linear seismic tomographic imaging; title: Ductile flow in the metamorphic rocks of central Sulawesi; title: Basement character and basin formation in Gorontalo Bay, Sulawesi, Indonesia: new observations from the Togian Islands; title: Tectonic re-interpretation of the Banggai-Sula-Molucca Sea margin, Indonesia; title: Structural and stratigraphic evolution of the Savu Basin, Indonesia; title: Tectonic post-collision processes in Timor; title: Physical oceanography of the present day Indonesian Throughflow; title: Indonesian Throughflow variability during the last 140 ka: the Timor Sea outflow; title: The impact of ocean gateways on ENSO variability in the Miocene; title: Neogene climate history of the Makassar Straits, Indonesia; title: Oligocene palynological succession from the East Java Sea; title: SE Asian carbonates: tools for evaluating environmental and climatic change in equatorial tropics over the last 50 million years.