Assembling Asia: Ring of Fire - tectonic journeys in East Asia 

Very nice video. Geology is so fascinating. Will watch more on your channel

During my first assignment in Southeast Asia, in Northern Thailand, in 1971, a similarity of the region’s parallel ranges and valleys to topography that was to be seen in Nevada and Western Utah’s Basin and Range Province was noticeable. In the intervening decades this similarity was occasionally a matter for random musing, but, not being a geologist, nor even a scientist of any particular sort, my mild curiosity about the matter went long unsatisfied. As the story of India’s headlong rush to its collision with the pre-existing Asia trickled into the consciousness of amateur geologists and geographers, and the related accounts of terrane accretion east of the Indian Ocean, the difference of the origins of those parallel mountain and valley structures in Southeast Asia from the stretching and faulting that produced the superficially similar topography in the western US became clear. Your further elaboration provides familiar Cambodian and Thai place names to attach to the accreted terranes.

Thanks so much for this and other videos you've posted. It's fascinating stuff; presented clearly in a straightforward way

I recently discovered your channel and am enjoying all your videos so much, thank you! One view and I was a subscriber. For paleomagnetism I was curious to hear some remarks on how geomagnetic reversals are taken into account. I guess that reversals happen so quickly that field inclination is effectively stable over geologic time? And even if the field polarity is not, polarity differences are random and mostly irrelevant? Thank you for sharing you passion for geology.

Great video, learned a lot and was very fascinated !

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I live in northeastern Thailand close to the suture bounding the western and southern perimeter of Isaan - amongst sentinel L. Cretaceous escarpment. You have answered a number of questions I've pondered about the local geology. But I still have one yet to answer. These escarpments extend eastwards into Laos and Cambodia and consitute a colossal fluvio-deltaic system. Was it the biggest ever yet identified on this planet?

I think the more interesting question is "What put them in motion?"