Causes and consequences of Oligocene-Miocene relative sea level change in Asia: An example from the Labuan Island (Sabah), Malaysia

Abstract

Labuan Island represents the emergent part of a north-eastward plunging anticline. The stratigraphic succession at Labuan is made up of four formations: the Crocker Formation, the Temburong Formation, the Setap shale Formation and the Belait Formation. The sedimentological aspects of the Labuan stratigraphic succession have been studied by several authors but the stratigraphic relationships between the formations is still a matter of conjecture. In this paper we have undertaken an outcrop based (1) sedimentary facies analysis of the Middle Miocene Belait Formation and (2) inferred the mode of stratigraphic sequence building of the Oligocene-Miocene successions.

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Keywords

Sedimentology, Miocene, Belait Formation, Borneo, Stratigraphy, Unconformity, Oligocene

Citation

Mazumder, R., De, S., Sien, B. T. J., Heng, J. T. Z., Catuneanu, O., Yang, R., & Marriott, S. (2021). Causes and consequences of Oligocene-Miocene relative sea level change in Asia: An example from the Labuan Island (Sabah), Malaysia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 212, 104746.

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