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Cretaceous Strike-Slip Dislocations in the Dalat Zone (Southeastern Vietnam)

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Studies of ductile dislocations of the Jurassic terrigenous deposits and faulting kinematics of the Cretaceous injective structures in the Dalat zone show that the volcano-plutonic belt of southeastern Vietnam was formed under NE-striking sinistral dislocations affected by NNW transpression. This deformation took place in similar conditions as for the Cretaceous structure of the eastern margin of Asia. Due to the Indo-Eurasian collision, since the Cenozoic the Indo-Sinian Block has been displaced toward the southeast by a distance of more than 500 km from its primary position, causing transformation of the previously formed Cretaceous structures. Thus, the Cenozoic tectonogenesis in southeastern Vietnam should be studied with regard to the previous Cretaceous tectonic deformation.

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  1. Federal State Budgetary Institution of Science Far East Geological Institute, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. 100-let Vladivostoku 159, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia

    S. A. Kasatkin & V. V. Golozubov

  2. Institute of Marine Geology and Geophisics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

    Phung Van Phach & Le Duc Anh

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Original Russian Text © S.A. Kasatkin, Phung Van Phach, Le Duc Anh, V.V. Golozubov, 2017, published in Tikhookeanskaya Geologiya, 2017, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 29–42.

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Kasatkin, S.A., Phach, P.V., Anh, L.D. et al. Cretaceous Strike-Slip Dislocations in the Dalat Zone (Southeastern Vietnam). Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 11, 408–420 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714017060033

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