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Malay Basin, a northward-trending pull-apart extensional rift basin, formed during the late Eocene-early Oligocene and then underwent thermal subsidence and sedimentation during the early Miocene. Reorientation of regional stress fields during the mid-Miocene caused structural inversion resulting in east-west anticlines and half grabens.
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