Early Cretaceous tectonic events implied in the time‐lag between the age of radiolarian chert and its metamorphic basement in the Bantimala area, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
- 1 June 1994
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Island Arc
- Vol. 3 (2) , 90-102
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1738.1994.tb00097.x
Abstract
The Bantimala Complex of South Sulawesi consists mainly of mélange, chert, basalt, ultramafic rocks and high pressure type metamorphic rocks. Well‐preserved radiolarians were extracted from 10 samples of chert, and K‐Ar age dating was done for muscovite from five samples of schist of the Bantimala Complex. The radiolarian assemblage from chert is assigned middle Cretaceous (late Albian‐early Cenomanian) age, while the K‐Ar age data from schist range from 132 Ma to 114 Ma except for one sample with rare muscovite. The radiolarian chert is unconformably underlain by schist in the Bantimala Complex. The stratigraphie relationship and the time lag of these two kinds of age data from chert and underlying schist suggest short‐time tectonic events immediately followed by a quick waning tectonism in this region during the Albian‐Cenomanian transgression.Keywords
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