Correlation of the Pre-late Lower Quaternary Alpine-Himalayan Epeiro- genesis-Inthanon Uplift to New Zealand-Pacific Orogenesis: A Geological Update

• Main Authors: Somboon Kositanont, Sangad Bunopas, Clive Burrett, Pol Chaodamong, Kieren Howard, Thiva Supajanya, Punya Charusiri
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: New Zealand; North Pole; Pacific; Siberia
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.578.5707; http://www.geo.sc.chula.ac.th/Geology/English/News/Technique/GREAT_2008/PDF/043.pdf

Euraustralasian cometary impact had a pathway in the northnorthwest direction (Fig. 1). It came near the North Pole from south Siberia in Europe through Asia and Australia, finally colliding Darwin crater (Bunopas et al., 2008, in press). It took more than ten thousands of years for catastroloess to be covered almost half of the land surface. We considered that the continental wide deforest and major flood may have occurred contemporaneously with ~0.78 Ma tektite (Charusiri et al., 2003) falls and the paleomagnetic reversals. Catastroloess (muddy sands) were transported as flooded alluvial sediments into the Mun River in the Khorat Plateau (Howard, 1999; Bunopas et al., 1999; Haines et al., 2002, 2004). Catastroloess on land fallen down from several hundred kilometers eventually buried several things such as animals, fallen burnt trees and trunks (Fig. 2), as evident in Thailand and Australia. The most important discoveries revealed that the theory of origin of glaciations in Middle Pleistocene; the mass extinction in Miocene (8-10 Ma) and the impacts and the origin of tektites and microtektitis (Fig. 4) were incorrectly interpreted in response to climatic changes (Glass, 1990; Wasson, 1991; Bunopas et al., 1999). Geochemically, the Euraustralasian cometary impact contributed less amount of Ir, suggesting the terrestrial source. Sediments suggesting Miocene extinction in Khok Soong of the Khorat