Basement Rock East Java
Basement Rock East Java
The 30th HAGI, The 34th IAGI, and The 14th PERHAPI Annual Conference and Exhibition
JCS2005-V214
ABSTRACT
Eastern Java has been well known as hydrocarbon producing area but its Early Tertiary producing basins
are still little-studied. Because the Early Tertiary basins is underlain by basement rock, it is important to
study the basement that exposed in Karangsambung and Bayat areas along with the Paleogene rocks as an
analogue to the other Eastern Java basement rocks. The basement rock in Karangsambung is a subduction
complex characterized by a tectonically mixed block-in-matrix structure. The blocks consist of various
rock types (serpentinite, gabbro, basalt, chert, calcilutite, greywacke, sandstone, phyllite, marble, schist,
and eclogite), embedded in a sheared-shale matrix. In Bayat the basement has only few indications of
block-in-matrix structure, consisting dominantly of phyllite and schist. The age of the Luk Ulo complex is
Late Cretaceous-Paleocene determined based on radiolarian fossils found in the matrix and foram in the
sedimentary blocks. The present study confirms this age with the finding of Orbitolina sp. The age of the
Bayat complex remains unknown. Major faults in both basement complexes indicate a similar NE-SW
trend, but their internal structures are different. The present study recognized that mlange accretion in
Karangsambung indicates an overturned trend. Instead of dipping NW as expected from a SE-direction
subduction zone, the mlange structural dips are mostly to the S-SE. This overturning may relate to a later
major deformational event. Eocene strata rest unconformably on top of the Bayat basement. This indicates
that an Eocene basin developed fully in Bayat area. Besides the Eocene rocks, a middle Miocene
limestone is also in direct contact unconformably on top of the basement indicating that Bayat basement
area is a high area at least since that time. In Karangsambung area, the present study found a new type of
Eocene rock unit considered by previous worker as a Mesozoic sedimentary sequence within the
Karangsambung mlange. This internally coherent, relatively unmetamorphosed, and little deformed
sedimentary sequence has a thickness up to 350 meters and consists mostly of shale with thin layer
interbeds of sandstone, sandy limestone and conglomerate lenses. The Eocene age of this sequence is
based on the small-sized (0.2 0.5 cm) Nummulites sp found, for the first time, within the three metersthick sandy limestone interbed. This also indicates that Eocene basin also developed in Karangsambung.
Based on field study described above along with analyses of field samples, a model of Paleogene tectonic
and basin evolutions of eastern Java has been constructing indicating that an important deformational
event took place in Karangsambung after the Cretaceous subduction leading to the overturning of
accretion mlange and juxtaposition of mlange and Eocene sedimentary sequence in Karangsambung.
While in Bayat the same deformation did not occur.
INTRODUCTION
Paleogene is an important period in the evolution
of geology of Southeast Asia region including
Java island. Besides highlighted by a period of
formation of major Tertiary basins, Paleogene was
also marked by a significant geological evolution,
mainly in the eastern part of Java, namely the
shifting of subduction zone in the southeastern
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FIGURE 1: Geologic map of Karangsambung (Asikin, 1991) (top), dan Bayat areas (Setiawan, 2000)
(bottom).
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FIGURE 2: Geologic map of the southern areas of Banjarnegara, Ketner et al, 1976 (top), dan Condon
et al, 1996 (bottom).
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FIGURE 5: Eocene melange outcrops in Kali Sabeng, (A) a blok of bedded sandstone, (B) disrupted
shale matrix containing pinch and swell structure of mudstone and sandstone fragments, (C) a block of
slump, (D & E) the Discocyclina limestone block embedded within the sheared shale, and (F) the
Discocyclina fossils in thin sections.
FIGURE 6: (A), (B), showing the Orbitolina-bearing limestone blocks, (C) a close up look of the
Orbitolina fossil in the outcrop, (D), (E), & (F) Orbitolina sp in thin sections, in K.Mondo traverse.
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FIGURE 7: Breccia that most of its fragments consists of material derived from the basement, such
phyllite, schist, and quartz veins, as well as nummulitic limestone. Location: SE part of Gunung Pendul
area.
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