The Mindanao collision zone: a soft collision event within a continuous Neogene strike-slip setting

Pubellier, Manuel; Quebral, R.; Rangin, Claude; Deffontaines, B.; Müller, Carla; Butterlin, Jacques; Manzano, Jevan

doi:10.1016/0743-9547(91)90070-e

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“…Since the early Miocene -or possibly the late Oligocene in Sulawesi ] -this active margin which extended much further toward the north served as a collector for all the asperities carried by the Philippine plate, and the traces of the docking are found everywhere along the deformed plate boundary [Rangin et al, 1985 ;McCabe and Almasco, 1985 ;Pubellier et al, 1996]. The reconstructions illustrate a southward migration of the docking, which reached the southern island of Mindanao in the Pliocene Pubellier et al, 1991Pubellier et al, , 1999. Relics of the ocean that existed between the margin of the Philippine Sea plate (Philippine arc) and the Eurasian margin were not found.…”

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The building of pericratonic mountain ranges : structural and kinematic constraints applied to GIS-based reconstructions of SE Asia

Pubellier

Frederic

Chamot‐Rooke

et al. 2003

Bulletin De La Société Géologique De France

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Abstract. -Southeast Asia represents a valuable playground for studying the mechanisms of supra subduction mountain building. Fast relative plate velocities induce rapid geodynamic changes, so that the parameters for the convergence can be constrained, whereas the recently inactivated systems are still accessible. We make use of the GPS-controlled motion of major plates together with that of smaller units within the deformed belts, to explore the Neogene evolution of SE Asia. We present simplified synthetic sections for the structural control, and used GIS-based reconstructions to support the relative location of the plates and distances between them, so that at a given time, location of units can be confronted to the tectonic observations. Pericratonic mountain ranges are the result of long lasting convergence which was responsible for both the fragmentation of continental landmasses by the opening of marginal basins, and the shortening of these supra subduction units, which ultimately jammed them back against the motherland, or transferred them to the neighbouring plate. Because the obliquity of the convergence generated strain partitioning, new paired trench and strike-slip systems are created, moving blocks further away from the locus of accretion, so that continental or oceanic fragments may be chopped, transported and eventually severely sheared during final docking. We present simplified cross sections of the margins of the SE Asian regions prior and after the accretions of blocks and reconstructions at 2, 4, 6, 10, 15 and 20 Ma. L'édification des chaînes péricratoniques, contraintes structurales et cinématiques appliquées aux reconstructions de l'Asie du SE sur SIGMots-clés. -SE Asiatique, Reconstructions cinématiques, Convergence, Chaîne de montagne péricratonique, SIG.Résumé. -Le SE asiatique est un chantier qui permet d'étudier la formation des chaînes de montagnes situées au dessus des zones de subduction à différents stades de leur évolution. Dans ces régions, la cinématique des plaques est extrême-ment rapide, souvent de l'ordre de 10 cm/an, et la convergence engendre l'ouverture, elle aussi rapide, de bassins marginaux qui fragmentent sous forme de lanières les masses continentales. Les fragments ainsi séparés comportent donc un substratum généralement constitué de matériel correspondant à des ophiolites de supra subduction (arc, avant-arc, arrière-arc) ainsi que des reliques de croûte continentale. Ce type de mécanisme aboutit à la formation de plaques étirées qui peuvent être soit de nature océanique comme pour la plaque Philippine [Karig, 1975] formée de bassins arrière-arcs

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The building of pericratonic mountain ranges : structural and kinematic constraints applied to GIS-based reconstructions of SE Asia

Pubellier

Frederic

Chamot‐Rooke

et al. 2003

Bulletin De La Société Géologique De France

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“…This arc is interpreted to represent a magmatic response to the collision between the western and eastern Mindanao ca. 5 Ma (Pubellier et al, 1991;Castillo et al, 1999). The PlioPleistocene volcanoes are predominantly basaltic to basaltic andesites with minor acidic rocks (Sajona et al, 1994).…”

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“…1). This suture zone is the northwestern extension of the Sindangan-Cotabato-Daguma Lineament as mapped by Pubellier et al (1991).…”

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Tectonic setting of a composite terrane: A review of the Philippine island arc system

et al. 2008

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Features resulting from the interplay of arc magmatism, ophiolite accretion, ocean basin closure and other subsequent tectonic processes are preserved in the Philippine island arc system. Subduction of ocean floor along the trenches surrounding the Philippines is a major factor in shaping the geologic history of this island arc system. Stress-strain relationships, as manifest in both the regional and local setting of the archipelago, are derived from the interaction of at least four major plates: Sundaland, Philippine Mobile Belt, Philippine Sea and, to a certain extent, the Indo-Australian plate. Collision zones in this island arc system are characterized by the involvement of oceanic bathymetric highs (seamounts, spreading ridge, submerged continental fragment). A major strike-slip fault, the Philippine Fault Zone, with compressional and extensional components, traverses the whole archipelago where all excess stress not accommodated by the surrounding trenches is taken up. Tholeiitic through adakitic to calc-alkaline rock suites characterize the different magmatic arcs. Exposed oceanic lithospheric fragments exhibit transitional mid-ocean ridge, back arc basin to island arc geochemical characteristics. The observed crustal thickness in the Philippines resulted from combined magmatic (volcanism) and amagmatic (ophiolite accretion) processes, with the former being the dominant factor.

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“…2a). The Siayan-Sindangan Suture Zone is the northwestern extension of the SindanganCotabato -Daguma Fault (e.g., Pubellier et al, 1991;Jimenez et al, 2002) (Fig. 1).…”

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Indenter-tectonics in the Philippines: Example from the Palawan Microcontinental Block - Philippine Mobile Belt Collision

2005

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Abstract:The aseismic Palawan microcontinental block is an oceanic bathymetric high that has collided with the seismically-active Philippine Mobile Belt since the Early Miocene. Consequently, tectonic microblocks immediately north (Luzon) and south (Western Visayas Block) of the collision front rotated in opposite senses. The rotation led the microblocks to onramp adjacent strike-slip faults, and converted these to subduction zones, namely, the current Manila and Negros Trenches. In addition, the collision also initiated the southward propagation of a major left-lateral strike slip fault, the Philippine Fault Zone, and the Philippine Trench, which bounds the Philippine archipelago along its eastern boundary. Based on onshore and offshore data, the Philippine Fault Zone and the East Luzon Trough -Philippine Trench appears to also propagate northward. Furthermore, the opposite direction of propagation is also noted for the Manila and Negros Trenches from the locus of the collision in the Central Philippines to their northern and southern extensions, respectively. The ages of initiation of the Manila Trench (Early Miocene), Philippine Fault Zone (Middle Miocene) and Philippine Trench (Pliocene) as encountered along a west to east transect in the Central Philippines are consistent with the collision and subsequent indentation of Palawan with the rest of the Philippine Mobile Belt.

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The Mindanao collision zone: a soft collision event within a continuous Neogene strike-slip setting

Cited by 105 publications

References 28 publications

The building of pericratonic mountain ranges : structural and kinematic constraints applied to GIS-based reconstructions of SE Asia

The building of pericratonic mountain ranges : structural and kinematic constraints applied to GIS-based reconstructions of SE Asia

Tectonic setting of a composite terrane: A review of the Philippine island arc system

Indenter-tectonics in the Philippines: Example from the Palawan Microcontinental Block - Philippine Mobile Belt Collision

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