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(BPMIGAS - Indonesias Executive Agency for Upstream Oil and Gas Business Activities )
EXTENDED ABSTRACT
Java Island occupies an active margin of
Central Java, in the middle part of the Java plate interaction between Eurasia
Island, Indonesia, shows a conspicuous re- continental plate and Indian oceanic plate,
entrants or indentation of its coastlines which have converged since Juro-
compared to those of western and eastern Cretaceous. Therefore, the basement of
Java (Figure 1). This indentation is Java Island is composed of both Eurasian
considered to express a wrench continental crust (northern West Java and
segmentation. Two major Paleogene Central Java) and intermediate accreted
strike-slip faults with opposing trends and terrane (southern West Java, southern
slips are responsible for the indentation. Central Java and almost East Java). The
The faults are called (1) the Muria- presence of some micro-continents is also
Kebumen Fault, left-lateral, trending possible in Java, like in the Jampang and
southwest-northeast; and (2) the Bayat areas. The main tectonic elements
Pamanukan-Cilacap Fault, right-lateral, resulted from the convergence include :
trending northwest-southeast. subduction trenches, magmatic-volcanic
arcs, accretionary prisms, and back-arc and
The two faults caused significant geologic fore-arc basins. Sedimentary and
changes in Central Java. The faults caused volcanoclastic rocks intruded by some
: indentations of northern and southern magmatic intrusions cover the basement
coastlines, subsidence of North Central rocks. Central Java occupies a transition
Java, uplift of the Serayu Range and between dominantly continental basement
exposure of the pre-Tertiary Luk Ulo at West Java and dominantly intermediate
melange complex, disappearance of the basement at East Java.
Southern Mountains of Java in southern
Central Java due to subsidence, and Structural trends of Java Island can be
northward shifting of the Quaternary grouped into four groups, including : (1)
volcanic arc in Central Java. Meratus Trend (southwest-northeast), (2)
Sunda Trend (north-south), (3) Java Trend
This new tectonic insight of Central Java (west-east), and (4) Sumatra Trend
gives reasoning why basins in Central Java (northwest-southeast). The structures with
are different with its counterparts in Sumatra Trend mainly exist in West Java
western and eastern Java and presenting area and disappear to the east of Central
where to look for possible petroleum Java area. Whereas, the structures of
possibilities in this area. Meratus Trend dominate the structural
grains of northern East Java and getting
Regional Tectonics and Structures of reducing and disappearing to the west of
Java Island Central Java. It looks that Central Java
occupies the transition area of structure northeast from the foot of Mount Muria,
between the Meratus and Sumatra Trends. through Luk Ulo-Karangsambung area, to
The formations of these structures are : an area to the west of Kebumen. This
Late Cretaceous (Meratus Trend), Sumatra major fault is called the Muria-Kebumen
Trend (Late Cretaceous-Paleocene), Sunda Fault and interpreted as a strike-slip fault.
Trend (Eocene-Late Oligocene), and Java To the west, the Bouguer anomaly
Trend (since Early Miocene). The difference is bordered by a major fault
structural grains of Meratus, Sumatra, and trending northwest-southeast from east of
Sunda Trends are generally normal and Jakarta to Cilacap area, the fault is called
strike-slip faults; whereas folds and thrust- the Pamanukan-Cilacap Fault and
reverse faults constitute the Java Trend. interpreted to be a strike-slip fault.
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Pamanukan-Cilacap Faults have resulted in some significant geologic phenomena in the region and controlled the distribution of sedimentary
basins.