The Towuti Drilling Project (TDP) is an international research program, whose objective is to understand long-termenvironmental and climatic change in the tropical western Pacific, the impacts of geological and environmental changes on the biological evolution of...
An evolutionary history of the western Pacific is presented by reconstructing the spreading systems of the region since Middle Mesozoic time on the basis of marine magnetic lineations, paleomagnetic data, DSDP results, and selected other data. Subduction along the...