Publications

The Banda Arc is one of the most geologically complex and controversial areas on Earth. New multi-client broadband seismic data show significant improvements in imaging quality and provide new constraints on geological modeling of the Timor Trough region. North of the Timor Trough a thin-skinned fold-and-thrust belt has formed on a décollement formed within a correlate of the Eocene Prion Formation. The Timor Trough marks the zone where the distal end of the fold-and-thrust belt has accreted on to down-flexing Australian continental material which took place around 2–3 Ma. It is postulated that continental material was unable to subduct and downflexed before the system blocked.