@article{oai:kanazawa-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00010936, author = {久田, 健一郎 and 荒井, 章司 and Hisada, Ken-ichiro and Sugiyama, Masaaki and Ueno, Katsumi and Charusiri, Punya and Arai, Shoji}, issue = {1}, journal = {Island Arc}, month = {Mar}, note = {Thailand comprises two continental blocks: Sibumasu and Indochina. The clastic rocks of the Triassic Mae Sariang Group are distributed in the Mae Hong Son-Mae Sariang area, north-west Thailand, which corresponds to the central part of Sibumasu. The clastic rocks yield abundant detrital chromian spinels, indicating a source of ultramafic/mafic rocks. The chemistry of the detrital chromian spinels suggests that they were derived from three different rock types: ocean-floor peridotite, chromitite and intraplate basalt, and that ophiolitic rocks were exposed in the area, where there are no outcrops of them at present. Exposition of an ophiolitic complex denotes a suture zone or other tectonic boundary. The discovery of chromian spinels suggests that the Gondwana-Tethys divide is located along the Mae Yuam Fault zone. Both paleontological and tectonic aspects support this conclusion. © 2004 Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.}, pages = {119--127}, title = {Missing ophiolitic rocks along the Mae Yuam Fault as the Gondwana-Tethys divide in north-west Thailand}, volume = {13}, year = {2004} }