Abstract
The 850-km-long chain of islands between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea constitutes the central part of the 5000-km-long Myanmar–Indonesia Mobile Belt related to an active subduction zone. The Andaman Island Arc comprises two nearly parallel arcuate belts. The western arc is represented by more than 300 islands of the Andaman, Nicobar and Mentawai groups. It is made up of Upper Cretaceous–Tertiary flysch, implanted with ophiolites at various structural levels.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Alam, M. A., Chandrasekharam, D., Vaselli, O., Capaccioni, B., Manetti, P. & Santo, P. B. (2004). Petrology of the prehistoric lavas and dyke of the Barren Island, Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean. Proceedings of Indian Academy Sciences (Earth & Planetary Sciences), 113, 715–721.
Avasthi, D. N. (2005). The Sunda Trench and the Andaman-Nicobar Islands. Journal of Geological Society of India, 66, 519–520.
Bandypadhyay, P. C., & Ghosh, M. (1998). Facies, petrology and depositional environment of the Tertiary sedimentary rocks around Port Blair, South Andaman. Journal of Geological Society of India, 52, 53–66.
Bandypadhyay, P. C., Mitra, S. K., Pal, T., & Raghav, S. (2006). The 2005 eruption on Barren Island, Andaman Sea. Current Science, 90, 620–622.
Bandypadhyay, S., Subramanyam, M. R., & Sharma, P. N. (1973). The geology and mineral resources of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Records of Geological Survey of India, 105, 25–68.
Chakraborty, P. P., Pal, T., Dutta-Gupta, T. P., & Gupta, K. S. (1999). Facies pattern and depositional motif in an immature trench-slope basin, Eocene Mithakhari Group, Middle Andaman, India. Journal of Geological Society of India, 53, 271–284.
Cochran, J. R. (2010). Morphology and tectonics of the Andaman Forearc, northeastern Indian Ocean. Geophysical Journal of International, 182, 631–651.
Curray, J. R. (1989). The Sunda Arc: A model for oblique plate convergence. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research, 24, 131–140.
Curray, J. R. (2005). Tectonics and history of the Andaman Sea region. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 25, 187–232.
Curray, J. R., & Moore, D. G. (1971). Growth of the Bengal deep sea fan and denudation in the Himalaya. Geological Society of American Bulletin, 82, 563–572.
Curray, J. R., Moore, D. G., Lawker, L. A., Emmel, F. J., Raitt, R. W., Henry, M., & Kieckhefer, R. (1978). Tectonics of the Andaman Sea and Burma. Geological and Geophysical Investigations of Continental Margins (pp. 189–198). A Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geology.
Dasgupta, S., & Mukhopadhyay, M. (1993). Seismicity and plate deformation below the Andaman arc, Northeastern Indian Ocean. Tectonophysics, 225, 529–542.
Eguchi, T., Uyeda, S., & Maki, T. (1980). Seismotectonics and tectonic history of the Andaman sea. Tectonophysics, 57, 35–51.
Haldar, D., & Luhr, J. F. (2003). The Barren Island volcanism during 1991 and 1994-1995: Eruptive style and lava petrology. Memoires Geological Society of India, 52, 313–338.
Jacob, K. (1954). The occurrence of radiolarian cherts in association with ultramafic intrusives in the Andaman Islands and its significance in sedimentary tectonics. Record Geological Survey of India, 83, 398–422.
Jafar, S. A., & Singh, O. P. (1996). Late Miocene calcareous nannofossils from Sawai Bay Formation, Neill Island, Andaman Sea, India (pp. 733–738). Dehradun: Proceedings of Fifteenth Colloquium Micropalaeontology Strati.
Jafri, S. H. (1986). Occurrence of Hagistrids in chert associated with Port Blair Series, South Andaman, India. Journal of Geological Society of India, 28, 41–43.
Jafri, S. H., Charan, S. N., & Govil, P. K. (1995). Plagiogranite from the Andaman ophiolite belt, Bay of Bengal, India. Journal of Geological Society of London, 152, 681–688.
Kamesh Raju, K. A. (2005). Three-phase tectonic evolution of the Andaman backarc basin. Current Science, 89, 1932–1936.
Kamesh Raju, K. A., Ramprasad, T., Rao, P. S., Ramalingeswara Rao, B., & Varghese, J. (2004). New insights into the tectonic evolution of the Andaman basin, northeast Indian Ocean. Earth & Planetary Sciences Letters, 221, 145–162.
Kamesh, Raju, K. A., Murty, G. P. S., Amarnath, D. & Mohan, Kumar, M. L. (2007). The West Andaman Fault and its influence on the aftershock pattern of the recent megathrust earthquakes in the Andaman–Sumatra region. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029.
Karunakaran, C., Pawde, M. B., Raina, V. K. & Ray, K. K. (1964). Geology of the South Andaman Islands (Vol. 11, pp. 79–100). Proceedings of 22nd International Geological Congress, New Delhi.
Karunakaran, C., Ray, K. K., & Saha, S. S. (1968). Tertiary sedimentation in the Andaman-Nicobar geosyncline. Journal of Geological Society of India, 9, 32–39.
Mukhopadhyay, M. (1988). Gravity anomalies and deep structure of the Andaman Arc. Marine Geophysical Research, 9, 197–210.
Pal, T., Charakborty, P. P., Duttagupta, T., & Singh, C. D. (2003). Geodynamic evolution of the outer arc–forearc belt in the Andaman Islands, the central part of the Burma-Java subduction complex. Geological Magazine, 140, 289–307.
Pal, T., Duttagupta, T., & Dasgupta, S. C. (2002). Vitric tuffs from Archipelago Group of rock (Mio-Pliocene) of South Andaman. Journal of Geological Society of India, 59, 111–114.
Pandey, J., Agarwal, R. P., Dave, A., Maithani, A., Trivedi, K. B., Srivastava, A. K., & Singh, D. N. (1992). Geology of Andaman. Bulletin ONGC, 29, 19–103.
Pawde, M. P., & Ray, R. K. (1963). Sedimentary structures in greywackes of South Andaman. Science and Culture, 30, 279–280.
Rajashekhar, C., & Reddy, P. P. (2003). Quaternary stratigraphy and micropalaeontology of rocks of South Andaman, Bay of Bengal. Gondwana Geological Magazine, 6, 33–38.
Rao, P. S., Kamesh Raju, K. A., Ramprasad, T., Nagender Nath, B., Ramalingeswara Rao, B., Rao, Ch M, & Nair, R. R. (1996). Evidence for hydrothermal activity in the Andaman Back-arc basin. Current Science, 70, 379–385.
Ray, K. K. (1982). A review of the geology of Andaman and Nicobar islands. Miscellaneous Publication Geological Survey of India, 42(II), 110–125.
Ray, K. K. (1985). East coast volcanics—New suite in the ophiolites of Andaman Islands. Record Geological Survey of India, 116(2), 83–87.
Ray, K. K., Sengupta, S., & van Den Hul, H. J. (1988). Chemical characters of volcanic rocks from Andaman ophiolite assemblage, India. Journal of Geological Society of London, 145, 393–400.
Roy, T. K. (1983). Geology and hydrocarbon prospects of Andaman-Nicobar Basin. Petroliferous Basins of India (pp. 37–50). Dehradun: ONGC.
Roy, S. K. (1992). Accretionary prism in Andaman forearc. Special Publication, Geological Survey of India, 29, 273–278.
Roy, D. K., Acharyya, S. K., Ray, K. K., Lahiri, T. C., & Sen, M. K. (1988). Nature of occurrence and depositional environment of the oceanic pelagic sediment associated with ophiolite assemblage, South Andaman Island. Indian Minerals, 42, 31–56.
Roy, A. K., & Bhattacharya, A. (1982). Regional geomorphology of Vindhyachal. Geology of Vindhyachal (pp. 9–22). Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corporation.
Roy, S. K., & Das Sharma, S. (1993). Evolution of Andaman forearc basin and its hydrocarbon potential. In S. K. Biswas (Ed.), Petroliferous basins of India (pp. 407–428). Dehradun: Indian Petroleum Publishers.
Sengupta, S., Ray, K. K., Acharyya, S. K., & de Smith, J. B. (1990). Nature of ophiolite occurrences along the eastern margin of the Indian plate and their tectonic significance. Geology, 18, 439–442.
Sharma, V., & Srinivasan, M. S. (2007). Geology of Andaman-Nicobar: The Neogene. New Delhi: Capital Publishing Co. 163 p.
Shastry, A., Srivastava, R. K., Chandra, R., & Jenner, G. A. (2001). Fe-Ti-eriched mafic rocks from South Andaman ophiolite suite: Implication of late stage liquid immisibility. Current Science, 80, 453–454.
Srinivasan, M. S. (1978). New chronostratigraphic division of the Andaman-Nicobar Late Cenozoic rocks. Recent researches in Geology (pp. 22–36). Delhi: Hindustan Publishing Corporation.
Srinivasan, M. S. (1988). Late Cenozoic sequences of Andaman-Nicobar Island: Their regional significance and correlation. Indian Journal of Geology, 60, 11–34.
Srinivasan, M. S., & Azmi, R. J. (1979). Correlation of Late Cenozoic marine sections in Andaman-Nicobar, Northern Indian Ocean and equatorial Pacific. Journal of Palaeontology, 53, 1401–1415.
Srinivasan, M. S., & Chatterjee, B. K. (1981). Stratigraphy and depositional environments of Neogene limestones of Andaman Nicobar Islands, Northern Indian Ocean. Journal of Geological Society of India, 22, 536–546.
Srinivasan, M. S., & Sharma, V. (1973). Stratigraphy and microfauna of Car Nicobar Island, Bay of Bengal. Journal of Geological Society of India, 14, 1–11.
Srivastava, R, K., Chandra, R., & Shastry, A. (2004). High-Ti type N-MORB parentage of basalts from the South Andaman ophiolite suite, India, (Vol. 113, pp. 605–618). In Proceedings of Indian Academy of Sciences (Earth & Planetary Sciences).
Vohra, C. P., Haldar, D., & Ghosh-Roy, A. K. (1989). The Andaman-Nicobar ophiolite complex and associated mineral resources. In N. C. Ghose (Ed.), Phanerozoic Ophiolites of India (pp. 281–315). Patna: Summay Publication.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Valdiya, K.S. (2016). Andaman Island Arc and Back-Arc Sea. In: The Making of India . Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25029-8_21
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25029-8_21
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-25027-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-25029-8
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)