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Manado

Palu-KoroFault

Batui Thrust
Makassar

EASTARM
Strait

MatanoFault

MatanoFault
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Tomini Bay

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SULAWESI ISLAND
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BSP

Majene
Thrust-Fold
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Tolo Banda
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Bone Bay Trust Sea

MAKASSAR Walanae
Fault SBTP

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Western Sulawesi Province (Volcano-plutonic
6 Belt)

Blue schist Metamorphic Facies of the Central

Sulawesi Province

Ophiolite Belt of the East Sulawesi Province

Continental Terranes of the Banggai Sula Province

(BSP) and SE Sulawesi - Buton-Tukangbesi Province
0 100 200 Km
(SBTP)

Figure 1. Tectonic setting of Sulawesi and adjacent area, compiled after Sukamto (1975),Helmers et al.(1990),Parkinson (1991),Smith &
Silver (1991); Bachri and Baharuddin, 2001).

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Lineament analysis
Thelineamentsandfaultsanalyzed inthisstudyarea
are extracted from the existing geological maps of
1:250,000 scale (Figure 2) published by the
Indonesian Geological Research and Development
Center (G R D C ), now the Centre of Geological Survey,
the Geological Agency. These maps include the
Tilamuta Sheet (Bachri et al, 1 9 9 4 ) and
Kotamobagu Sheet (Bachri and Apandi, 1997). The
structures present in these maps are based on SLAR
imageandaerialphotographsinterpretationandfield
geologicalmapping.
Inreality,thePerantanaanFaultGroupalsocoincides
with the direction of ridges and big valleys or
graben/
half graben in the north arm of Sulawesi. Three
examples of the graben area are the Lake
LimbotoValley, the Bone Valley and the Pinogu Valley
intheeasternpartofthestudyarea.Thesevalleysare
covered by relatively young sediments and volcanics
such as the Quaternary lake deposits and the Plio-
PleistocenePinoguVolcanics.Thisphenomenonmay
suggest that probably the lineaments of Group A are
closely related to the occurrence of the almost E-W
elongated valleys which are presumably representing
extensional structures developing in the Late