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In July and August 2010, I carried out fieldwork on
East Timor, as part of an international collaborative research project funded
through the National Science Foundation of the USA that focusses on the
arc-continent collision history between the Australian continent and the
Banda oceanic plate, and the consequent orogeny on the island of Timor. This
island now forms a mountain range with peaks up to 3 km, virtually all of
which formed in the last 5 Ma. Fieldwork was carried out with researchers
from Princeton University, Brigham Young University, Utrecht University, SERN
(Timorese geological survey), PGP Oslo, and a collaboration with researchers
from the Western Australian University and the University of Canterbury in
New Zealand. My part of the project, with my MSc student Richard Bakker, focused on paleomagnetic and
biostratigraphic sampling of syn-orogenic basins on the island to reconstruct
uplift histories in great time-detail, and a paleomagnetic survey to
constrain vertical axis rotations and paleolatitude changes associated with
the collision. The Crew
Richard Bakker, MSc student, Paleomagnetic
Laboratory ‘Fort Hoofddijk’, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Garret Tate, PhD student, Princeton
Ron Harris, Brigham Young
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