Tectonics of the ophiolite belt from Naga Hills and Andaman Islands,India |
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| Authors: | S K Acharyya K K Ray S Sengupta |
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| Institution: | (1) Geological Survey of India, 700016 Calcutta, India |
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| Abstract: | The ophiolitic rocks of Naga Hills-Andaman belt occur as rootless slices, gently dipping over the Paleogene flyschoid sediments,
the presence of blue-schists in ophiolite melange indicates an involvement of the subduction process. Subduction was initiated
prior to mid-Eocene as proved by the contemporaneous lower age limit of ophiolite-derived cover sediment as against the accreted
ophiolites and olistostromal trench sediment. During the late Oligocene terminal collision between the Indian and Sino-Burmese
blocks, basement slivers from the Sino-Burmese block, accreted ophiolites and trench sediments from the subduction zone were
thrust westward as nappe and emplaced over the down-going Indian plate. The geometry of the ophiolites and the presence of
a narrow negative gravity anomaly flanking their map extent, run counter to the conventional view that the Naga-Andaman belt
marks the location of the suture. The root-zone of the ophiolite nappe representing the suture is marked by a partially-exposed
eastern ophiolite belt of the same age and gravity-high zone, passing through central Burma-Sumatra-Java.
The ophiolites of the Andaman and Naga Hills are also conventionally linked with the subduction activity, west of Andaman
islands. This activity began only in late Miocene, much later than onland emplacement of the ophiolites; it further developed
west of the suture in its southern part. Post-collisional northward movement of the Indian plate subparallel to the suture,
also developed leaky dextral transcurrent faults close to the suture and caused Neogene-Quatemary volcanism in central Burma
and elsewhere. |
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| Keywords: | Naga Hills Andaman islands ophiolites India-Eurasia (Sino-Burma) collision suture subduction transcurrent movement |
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