The intricate development of coastal to shelf environments and their deposits is dominantly driven by the interplay river, wave tide hydrodynamic processes. These processes are, in turn, impacted several additional factors including aeolian processes, contour currents, seasonal ice cover, nature mechanical characteristics substrate, confinement physiography basin, climate oscillation relative s...

Abstract Sundaland, the inundated shelf separating Java, Sumatra and Borneo from Malay Peninsula, is of exceptional interest to biogeographers for its species richness position at junction between Australasian Indomalay biogeographic provinces. Owing low elevation relief, physiography contingent on relative sea-level change, which drove Quaternary burst in response flooding episodes. New findin...

How can the sluggish, long-wavelength mantle convection be expressed by so many time and space scales of morphotectonic activity? To investigate these relationships, we explore Java-Banda subduction zone, where geodynamic records cluster. In far-East Tethys, exceptionally arcuate Banda zone circumscribes deepest oceanic basin on Earth, seismotectonic activity slices upper plate more efficiently...

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