Practice Quiz

Question 1

This is the general process where volcanic islands and pieces of continents are joined together.

Answer 1

Accretion/Collision

Question 2

This fault serves as the triple junction between Eurasia, PH Sea Plate, and Australia plate?

Answer 2

Sorong Fault

Question 3

What kind of fault boundary occurs between Western Burma and Sundaland/Eurasia?

Answer 3

Transform Boundary/Transform Fault

Question 4

This granite type evolved by the continuous repetitive melting of igneous rocks and evolution of the magma chamber from mafic to felsic.

Answer 4

I-type Granite

Question 5

This type of granite is from the partial melting of pelagic sediments, preferably deep sea sediments.

Answer 5

S-type Granite

Question 6

Arrange the main continental terranes in SEA from the oldest to the youngest:

Answer 6

• East Malaya Province
• N Thailand - W. Malaya Province
• SW Thailand - E. Burma Province

Question 7

Arrange the 4 sea basins in SEA based from the oldest to youngest:

Answer 7

1. West Philippine Sea
2. South China Sea
3. Celebes Sea
4. Sulu Sea

Question 8

Arrange the ff. from the earliest to the most recent: Sibumasu, Indochina, South China Sea, Himalayan Orogeny, Neotethys, Paleotethys

Answer 8

• Indochina
• Sibumasu
• Paleotethys
• Neotethys
• Himalayan Orogeny
• South China Sea

Question 9

Explain the mechanism of the current trend of movement/kinematics of mainland southeast asia are the:

Answer 9

northwards collision of India and Eurasia, the crustal shortening and thickening as well as the lateral extrusion process and clockwise rotation of China, Indochina, and Sundaland and lastly the major progressive counter-clockwise rotations observed in Borneo and the Malaya Peninsula.