Warta Geologi, Vol. 49, No. 1, April 2023, pp. 1–7
Harry Doust
Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam 1081 HV, the Netherlands
Author email address: harrydoust@hotmail.com
Abstract: This note builds on an earlier Warta note (Doust, 2022) that summarised the geological development of the island of Trinidad and the margins of the Caribbean Sea. Parts of Southeast Asia can be readily compared to these areas and, I believe, the two provinces can provide valuable analogues for each other. I illustrate this by considering examples of tectonic style taken from transpressional fold belts in Trinidad and eastern Java, from the evolution of foreland and wrench basin stratigraphy and from striking similarities between the stratigraphy and structure of Borneo and Trinidad’s Tertiary continent margin deltas.
Keywords: Geological evolution, Trinidad, Java, transpression, Borneo, deltas
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DOI : https://doi.org/10.7186/wg491202301
