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Several alternative modes of development for the West Philippine Basin have been suggested during the past few years. The results of Deep Sea Drilling Project leg 31 indicate that none of these speculations is correct and that the basin probably formed by complex pulses of extension during the early Tertiary. A striking lineament which trends northwest across the basin, variously called the Central Basin Fault or Philippine Ridge, had previously been identified as an extinct spreading ridge of Mesozoic to early Tertiary age. On the contrary, this feature is probably a strike slip fault, possibly with a left-lateral displacement.
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KARIG, D., INGLE, J., BOUMA, A. et al. Origin of the West Philippine Basin. Nature 246, 458–461 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246458a0
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