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RECENT mapping by a joint UK/Thai team of geologists1, operating under the Colombo Plan, has shown that the angular elbow-like feature in the Phuket area of peninsular Thailand projecting into the Andaman Sea is the physiographic expression of two major transcurrent faults with a total sinistral displacement of at least 200 km.
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GARSON, M., MITCHELL, A. Transform Faulting in the Thai Peninsula. Nature 228, 45–47 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/228045b0
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