MAINLAND SOUTHEAST

ASIA (INDOCHINA)
China

Yunnan province

Myanmar Laos

Thailand Vietnam

Cambodia

Malaysia

Sumatra
H.B. Ruelo
Dec 2000
 TECTONIC FRAMEWORK - SOUTHEAST ASIA
 an area of complex interaction between several
megatectonic blocks or terranes

 a collage of dominantly continental plate fragments

with Pre-Cambrian basements, which juxtaposed
each other via successive rift-drift-amalgamation events,
whose profound interaction in time (from Early Paleozoic
- Cenozoic) and space produced

 a variety of sources of mineralizing constituents and

the pathways along which these constituents moved
from their sources to the sites of mineral deposition
 INDOCHINA TECTONIC HISTORY
EARLY - MIDDLE PALEOZOIC LATE PALEOZOIC - EARLY MESOZOIC LATE MESOZOIC - EARLY CENOZOIC

MAGMATISM

PALAEO- MESO-TETHYS NEO-TETHYS

BASINAL MARINE TETHYS
SEDIMENTATION + RIFT-SAG

Early Permian Rifting

of Sibumasu Late Triassic suturing along
Changning-Menglian, Nan-Uttaradit,
Early Carboniferous Sra Keo and raub Bentong
Mid-late Devonian Rifting suturing along
of Indochina Song Ma and Ailaoshan

RIFT - DRIFT - SUTURING

TECTONIC EVENTS

1 2 3
Late Triassic Rifting
of West Burma

Late Cretaceous suturing

along Sagaing

ARCHAEN PRTZOIC CAMBRIAN ORDOV SILU DEVON CARBONIFEROUS PERMIAN TRIASSIC JURASS CRETACEOUS

PRE-CAMBRIAN PALEOZOIC MESOZOIC CENOZOIC

Myanmar
Yunnan
INDOCHINA REGION :
Laos
Vietnam MAJOR TECTONIC FRAMEWORK
Thailand

Cambodia
Malaysia China

Q
am
Sumatra

do
Indonesia Yunnan province

Si
m
ao
N 3 SOUTH CHINA PLATE

Terr
DIA E Laos
T WEST
IN LA

ane
P BURMA
Myanmar PLATE 1 Major Suture Events / Zones
SHAN-THAI PLATE

2
Vietnam 1 Early Carboniferous
Thailand suturing along
INDOCHINA PLATE
Song Ma (Red River) and
Ailaoshan Faults

2 Late Triassic suturing along

Cambodia Changning-Menglian, Uttara
dit, Sra Keo and R. Bentong
Malaysia
3 Late Cretaceous suturing
IN

along Sagaing Fault zone

DO
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US

Sumatra
TR
A

Indonesia
LI
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PL
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