Southeast Asia Research Group

Welcome to the Southeast Asia Research Group


The SE Asia Research Group carries out field and laboratory based studies aimed at understanding the tectonic development and geological history of this exciting, active and beautiful region.

Our research activities range from MSc, MRes and PhD studies to major thematic programmes, all of which involve collaborations between UK and SE Asian universities, government institutions and professional organisations.

In the last decade our research has included projects investigating the Sorong Fault Zone in east Indonesia, the Sumatran Fault, arc development and tectonic evolution in Java, sediment provenance and isotopic dating in Borneo, Cenozoic exhumation in West and East Malaysia and studies of the Banda Arc collision zone.

The SE Asia Research Group is funded by industrial companies in three-year consortia. Our three year 2017-2019 consortium is supported by Eni.

If you are interested in joining the SE Asia Research Group for the 2020-2022 consortium contact Paula Miles-Mathewson@rhul.ac.uk 

 

Visiting Borneo soon? Download our guide to the geology of Mount Kinabalu!

Robert Hall has published an open access paper on ‘the subduction initiation stage of the Wilson cycle’ in the Geological Society Special Publication ‘Fifty Years of the Wilson Cycle Concept in Plate Tectonics’ 

The paper can be downloaded from the Geological Society HERE

Recent News

Recent Papers –

Lloyd White, Robert Hall et al. Tectonic mode switches recorded at the northern edge of the Australian Plate during the Pliocene and Pleistocene.

https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005177

Juliane Hennig-Breitfeld. A new upper Paleogene to Neogene stratigraphy for Sarawak and Labuan in northwestern Borneo: Paleogeography of the eastern Sundaland margin.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.12.006

Sebastian Zimmermann. Provenance of Cretaceous sandstones in the Banda Arc and their tectonic significance.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2018.09.008

 

Recent News –

Robert Hall has been appointed Visiting Professor at Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) Indonesia and during his recent visit there, in February 2019, presented a lecture on “Eastern Indonesia: The Beginning and End of Subduction” and another at Pertamina University, Jakarta on a similar topic.

Robert Hall presented a talk for the Oxford Geology Group on the ‘Australia – SE Asia collision, the Wallace Line and Wallacea’ in January 2019

Amy Gough, Conor McMillan, and Kimberley Johnson attended BSRG at Herriot Watt in December 2018. Conor and Kim presented posters on the geology of Myanmar. Amy presented a talk on QFL in tropical environments and chaired the provenance session

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