Cenozoic motion of the Philippine Sea Plate: palaeomagnetic evidence from eastern Indonesia

New palaeomagnetic data have been obtained from 34 sites north of the Sorong Fault and 29 sites within the Sorong Fault system. These sites record southward movement during the Eocene and northward movement during the Neogene. It is proposed that the entire area north of the Sorong Fault in east Indonesia has always been part of the Philippine Sea Plate and that the whole plate has rotated clockwise in a discontinuous manner by approximately 90° since the early Eocene. -from Authorslink_to_subscribed_fulltex