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The Trobriand Subduction System in the Western Solomon Sea

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A south-dipping Subduction system which underlies the Trobriand Trough and 149° Embayment, on the southern margin of the Solomon Sea, is active or was recently active. Oceanic basement is overlain by 2.5 s, two-way travel time (TWTT), of sediment that shows at least two stages of deformation: early thrusts (inner wall) and normal faults (outer wall), and later normal faults that have elevated the outer trench margin. Thrust anticlines and slope basins are developed on the inner wall. The floor of the Solomon Sea Basin arches upward between the Trobriand Trough and the New Britain Trench to form isolated peaks and ridges in the east (152° Peaks) and an east-west Central Ridge in the west. Structures in the subduction system, and in the Solomon Sea Basin, plunge westward towards the point of collision with the New Britain Trench.

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  1. Division of Geophysics, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Canberra, Australia

    J. Lock & H. L. Davies

  2. CCOP/SOPAC, Private Mail Bag, Suva, Fiji

    D. L. Tiffin

  3. Department of Marine Geology, Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan

    F. Murakami & K. Kisimoto

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Lock, J., Davies, H.L., Tiffin, D.L. et al. The Trobriand Subduction System in the Western Solomon Sea. Geo-Marine Letters 7, 129–134 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02238042

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