Tag Archive for 'Banda Sea'

The cheerful fantail (Rhipidura laguceria) in November 2022. Image credit: James A. Eaton.

Ornithologists Describe New Bird Species from Remote Indonesian Islands

Jun 8, 2026 by Natali Anderson

A small songbird inhabiting the Babar Islands, in the Banda Sea, Indonesia, has been identified as a new species after a duo of researchers discovered...

The Banda Detachment fault beneath the Weber Deep basin. A - cross section through eastern Banda arc, cut parallel to grooves on fault surfaces and proposed direction of rollback; geometry of proto-Banda Sea slab is inferred from earthquake hypocenter locations catalogued by International Seismological Centre Online Bulletin; KSZ - Kawa shear zone. B - enlargement of Banda detachment showing schematically the configuration of over-riding continental allochthons (dark red); red triangles represent volcanoes. Image credit: Jonathan M. Pownall et al, doi: 10.1130/G38051.1.

Geologists Find Largest Exposed Fault on Earth

Nov 29, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of geologists from the Australian National University and Royal Holloway University of London has for the first time documented the...