The role of strike-slip faulting in the history of the Hukawng Block and the Jade Mines Uplift, Myanmar

The role of strike-slip faulting in the history of the Hukawng Block and the Jade Mines Uplift, Myanmar

© 2019 The Geologists' Association The Hukawng Basin is bounded on its east by splays of the still-active Sagaing Fault. Palinspastically restoring Myanmar's blocks to their positions before the widely-accepted c.400 km dextral strike-slip fault displacement, places the Hukawng Block along...

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Main Authors: Michael F. Ridd, Michael J. Crow, Christopher K. Morley
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Published: 2019
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spelling th-cmuir.6653943832-636372019-03-18T02:22:27Z The role of strike-slip faulting in the history of the Hukawng Block and the Jade Mines Uplift, Myanmar Michael F. Ridd Michael J. Crow Christopher K. Morley Earth and Planetary Sciences © 2019 The Geologists' Association The Hukawng Basin is bounded on its east by splays of the still-active Sagaing Fault. Palinspastically restoring Myanmar's blocks to their positions before the widely-accepted c.400 km dextral strike-slip fault displacement, places the Hukawng Block alongside the Tengchong Block, suggesting they were formerly connected. Additionally the Cretaceous–Paleogene Medial-Myanmar Shear Zone then aligns with the NW-SE Jade Mines Belt. Jadeitite formed there under HP/LT conditions in a Mesozoic subduction zone. It was exhumed at the intersection of the dextral Medial-Myanmar Shear Zone with the subduction-zone at the continental margin of Sundaland. The later Sagaing Fault played no part in that exhumation. 2019-03-18T02:22:27Z 2019-03-18T02:22:27Z 2019-01-01 Journal 00167878 2-s2.0-85061567418 10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.01.002 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85061567418&origin=inward http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/63637
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topic Earth and Planetary Sciences
spellingShingle Earth and Planetary Sciences
Michael F. Ridd
Michael J. Crow
Christopher K. Morley
The role of strike-slip faulting in the history of the Hukawng Block and the Jade Mines Uplift, Myanmar
description © 2019 The Geologists' Association The Hukawng Basin is bounded on its east by splays of the still-active Sagaing Fault. Palinspastically restoring Myanmar's blocks to their positions before the widely-accepted c.400 km dextral strike-slip fault displacement, places the Hukawng Block alongside the Tengchong Block, suggesting they were formerly connected. Additionally the Cretaceous–Paleogene Medial-Myanmar Shear Zone then aligns with the NW-SE Jade Mines Belt. Jadeitite formed there under HP/LT conditions in a Mesozoic subduction zone. It was exhumed at the intersection of the dextral Medial-Myanmar Shear Zone with the subduction-zone at the continental margin of Sundaland. The later Sagaing Fault played no part in that exhumation.
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author Michael F. Ridd
Michael J. Crow
Christopher K. Morley
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Michael J. Crow
Christopher K. Morley
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title The role of strike-slip faulting in the history of the Hukawng Block and the Jade Mines Uplift, Myanmar
title_short The role of strike-slip faulting in the history of the Hukawng Block and the Jade Mines Uplift, Myanmar
title_full The role of strike-slip faulting in the history of the Hukawng Block and the Jade Mines Uplift, Myanmar
title_fullStr The role of strike-slip faulting in the history of the Hukawng Block and the Jade Mines Uplift, Myanmar
title_full_unstemmed The role of strike-slip faulting in the history of the Hukawng Block and the Jade Mines Uplift, Myanmar
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