Palawan Geology

The geography of Palawan is, from various perspectives, dissimilar to different parts of the Philippines. The hull of upper east Palawan was gotten from the southeast edge of the mainland outside of China, some portion of the Eurasian Plate. It is the uncovered bit of a microcontinent that floated southward with the opening of the South China Sea. This microcontinent additionally shapes the shallow water north of Palawan in the Reed Bank-Dangerous Ground territory of the southern South China Sea. A portion of the most seasoned rocks of the Philippines are found in upper east Palawan (Permian-Carboniferous age). Southwest Palawan uncovered fundamentally ophiolitic material (rocks gotten from inspired maritime outside layer and mantle). This 34 Myr old maritime material[20] seems to have been pushed onto the mainland outside layer. The move from "maritime" ophiolite in the southwest to "mainland"- sort shakes in the upper east happens in the range of focal Palawan around Ulugan Bay and the Sabang zone. In the southern banks of Ulugan Bay and Sabang Beach, are a few exposures demonstrating that the Palawan ophiolite has been pushed on to the mainland inferred clastic rocks ("Sabang push").

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Palawan Geology