Jump to content

North Palawan Block

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by VonTheGreat26 (talk | contribs) at 09:11, 24 June 2017 (Created page with ''''North Palawan Block''' is a microcontinental block situated in the western Philippines and the southern tip of Manila Trench. The N...'). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

North Palawan Block is a microcontinental block situated in the western Philippines and the southern tip of Manila Trench. The North Palawan block is considered to form the northeastern portion of a much larger area of block faulted and foundered pre-Tertiary continental material which extends throughout the southern part of the South China Sea Basin and includes the Spratley Islands and the Dangerous Grounds area off Borneo (Fig. 1) (Hamilton, 1979). The evidence for the continental composition of the crustof this area is substantial and has been reviewed by Hamilton (1979) and Taylor & Hayes (1980) among others[1].