The breakup of Pangea in the Jurassic saw the opening of major ocean basins at the
expense of older Tethyan and Pacific oceanic plates. Although the Tethyan seafloor …

The New Guinea region evolved within the obliquely and rapidly converging Australian and
Pacific plate boundary zone. It is arguably one of the most tectonically complex regions of …

Abstract We reconstructed Philippine Sea and East Asian plate tectonics since 52 Ma from
28 slabs mapped in 3‐D from global tomography, with a subducted area of~ 25% of present …

Tectonic reconstructions of Southeast Asia have given rise to numerous controversies that
include the accretionary history of Sundaland and the enigmatic tectonic origin of the proto …

Abstract The Tasmanides of eastern Australia record the break-up of Rodinia, followed by
the growth of orogenic belts along the eastern margin of Gondwana. Spatially, the …

Songbirds (oscine passerines) are the most species-rich and cosmopolitan bird group,
comprising almost half of global avian diversity. Songbirds originated in Australia, but the …

Based on the marine magnetic anomalies identified in the Argo Abyssal Plain offshore
northwestern Australia, the conceptual continent of Argoland must have rifted off in the Late …

Early studies on Melanesian mountain systems provided insights for fundamental
evolutionary and ecological concepts. These island-like systems are thought to provide …

The tectonic history of the Indonesian Gateway ultimately controlled the long-term evolution
of the throughflow. During the Pliocene, changes in the position and geometry of the inflow …

As lithospheric plates are subducted, rocks are metamorphosed under high-pressure and
ultrahigh-pressure conditions to produce eclogites and eclogite facies metamorphic rocks …