Warta Geologi, Vol.
48, No. 3, December 2022, pp. 147–152

Does the Caribbean hold lessons for SE Asia? Part 1: The geology of Trinidad

Harry Doust

Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam 1081 HV, the Netherlands

Author email address: harrydoust@hotmail.com

Abstract: Together with a second note (Warta Geologi, April 2023) I summarise the geological development of the island of Trinidad and the adjacent margins of the Caribbean Sea in order to compare them with parts of Southeast Asia. I believe the two provinces provide valuable analogues for each other and 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 Tertiary continent margin deltas.

Keywords: Geological evolution, Trinidad, Java, transpression, Borneo, deltas

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Manuscript received 28 May 2022;

Received in revised form 5 December 2022;

Accepted 6 December 2022

Available online 30 December 2022

0126-5539; 2682-7549 / Published by the Geological Society of Malaysia.

© 2022 by the Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License 4.0

DOI : https://doi.org/10.7186/wg483202201