The Tertiary tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia: Insights from paleomagnetism and plate reconstructions

he Tertiary tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia has been controlled by the interaction between Eurasia, India, Australia, and the Pacific and Philippine Sea Plates. Plate circuits provide a framework for understanding the motions of the major plates but paleomagnetic studies provide the only means of measuring motions within Southeast Asia. Data collected from the Shan plateau of Myanmar show CW declinations interpreted to represent...