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Major tectonic systems operating during the past 200 My
I. Fragmentation of the Gondwana super-continent Creation of new Oceans Atlantic Indian circum-Antarctic formation of passive margins Closing of Tethys Ocean: complex Mediterranean – Middle East interactions major continental collisions in central Asia Australian-SE Asian collisions
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# Ma Middle Eocene Indian Pacific connection Drake Passage
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# Ma Early Oligocene Indian Pacific connection Drake Passage
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#6, 20.5 Ma Early Miocene Indian Pacific connection Drake Passage
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Drake Passage Indian Pacific connection
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circum-Antarctic Current
Formation of Circum-Antarctic Current >> isolation of Antarctica >> formation of ice sheet circum-Antarctic Current
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Formation of North Atlantic Deep water
(thermo-haline convection system)
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Formation of continental passive margins
continental shelf
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continental passive margins
Sedimentation on subsiding continental shelf thinned continental crust oceanic crust
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Major tectonic systems operating during the past 200 My
I. Fragmentation of the Gondwana super-continent Creation of new Oceans Atlantic Indian circum-Antarctic formation of passive margins Closing of Tethys Ocean: complex Mediterranean – Middle East interactions major continental collisions in central Asia Australian-SE Asian collisions
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Complex intra-continental Mediterranean-central Asian “plate boundary”
Earthquake depth 0-33 km 33-70 70-300 Indonesian (Sunda-Banda) island arc
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Topography for previous slide: note complex topography of Mediterranean-central Asian “plate boundary”.
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India moving northwards
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Himalayan evolution
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Indention of India into Asia
The named dashed and dotted lines represent boundaries between terranes successively accreted to Asia. The accretion increases in age to the north: Indus Tsangbo, 40 Ma Banggong,160 Ma Jinsha, 200 Ma Kunlun, 255 Ma Tienshan, late Paleozoic The indentation has moved these sutures northwards The dotted areas show the regions of shearing that accomodated the northward indentation of India
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Tibetan plateau models
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Region of theTibetan Plateau
Ignore white rectangle. The blue line shows the approximate location of the section shown in the third slide after this one.
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A recently published geological cross section
See the section line (blue line) on the map shown in the third preceding slide. From Yin, A. and T.M. Harrison, 2000, Geologic Evolution of the Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., v.28,
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Central Asian active tectonics
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Major tectonic systems operating during the past 200 My
II. Pacific System East Pacific Rise (EPR) moving towards the Americas and away from Asia Hot spot tracks Rimmed by subduction zones Western Pacific Subducting old oceanic lithosphere Formation of back-arc basins and island arcs Eastern Pacific Subducting young oceanic lithosphere Andean type mountain building Collision and accretion of exotic terranes Collision of EPR with North America
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East Pacific Rise
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Major tectonic systems operating during the past 200 My
II. Pacific System East Pacific Rise (EPR) moving towards the Americas and away from Asia Hot spot tracks Rimmed by subduction zones Western Pacific Subducting old oceanic lithosphere Formation of back-arc basins and island arcs Eastern Pacific Subducting young oceanic lithosphere Andean type mountain building Collision and accretion of exotic terranes Collision of EPR with North America
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Northwestern Pacific Subduction zones: seismicity
Ryukyu island arc Kurile-Kamchatka island arc Aleutian Island arc N. Honshu subduction zone Izu-Bonin-Marianas island arc Earthquake depth 0-33 km 33-70 70-300
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Northwestern Pacific Subduction zones: bathymetry
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Southwestern Pacific Subduction zones: seismicity
New Britain Island arc Southwestern Pacific Subduction zones: seismicity Vanuatu island arc Tonga island arc Kermadec island arc Earthquake depth 0-33 km 33-70 70-300 New Zealand
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Southwestern Pacific Subduction zones: bathymetry
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Major tectonic systems operating during the past 200 My
II. Pacific System East Pacific Rise (EPR) moving towards the Americas and away from Asia Hot spot tracks Rimmed by subduction zones Western Pacific Subducting old oceanic lithosphere Formation of back-arc basins and island arcs Eastern Pacific Subducting young oceanic lithosphere Andean type mountain building Collision and accretion of exotic terranes Collision of EPR with North America
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Major tectonic systems operating during the past 200 My
II. Pacific System East Pacific Rise (EPR) moving towards the Americas and away from Asia Rimmed by subduction zones Western Pacific Subducting old oceanic lithosphere Formation of back-arc basins and island arcs Eastern Pacific Subducting young oceanic lithosphere Andean type mountain building Collision and accretion of exotic terranes Collision of EPR with North America Hot spot tracks
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Eastern Pacific
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South American Plate Nazca Plate 8 cm/yr
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Central Andes cross section
South America Plate
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Major tectonic systems operating during the past 200 My
II. Pacific System East Pacific Rise (EPR) moving towards the Americas and away from Asia Rimmed by subduction zones Western Pacific Subducting old oceanic lithosphere Formation of back-arc basins and island arcs Hot spot tracks Eastern Pacific Subducting young oceanic lithosphere Andean type mountain building Collision and accretion of exotic terranes Collision of EPR with North America Continued in western_usa.ppt
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