1:50 000 Geological Map Series

Ataro
Timor-Leste

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2407 63 ZONE 51
Edition 1

BANDA

SEA

TOPOGRAPHY

DRAINAGE

Spot elevation............................................................................................................................................

Watercourse: perennial.........................................................................................

intermittent.....................................................................................

POPULATED PLACES

Hot spring..........................................................................................................................

Village........................................................................................................................................................

Ql1

Ql2

91

SYMBOL LEGEND

00

91
Ql3

Qa

00

GEOLOGY

GEOCHRONOLOGY

Fault, normal, hanging wall indicated...........................................................................................

Fault, unknown.............................................................................................................................

Isotopic age in millions of years..........................................

range of inherited ages

method

age of intrusion/extrusion
age of metamorphism

Akrema
Qid

Vatuu
Qvt

Ql

STRATIGRAPHIC LEGEND

Uaroana
Qa

Qa

Ql3

Qid

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Ql2

Qa
Ql

Doro

2012 GM ANGLE
2.05E
(changing by 0.033W/year)

TO CONVERT A
MAGNETIC AZIMUTH
TO A GRID AZIMUTH
SUBTRACT GM ANGLE

Pala

Qa

Qa

Ql3

Arlo

Adara

TO CONVERT A
MAGNETIC AZIMUTH TO
A GRID AZIMUTH ADD
GM ANGLE

3.5 Ma

Qa

K/Ar

Qir

Qvd

MAP LOCATION

Qid
Baucau

Liquica

Ql1

Los Palos

Qvd

Dili

Gleno

Qid

Aileu

Ql

Viqueque
Maliana

Ainaro
Same

Occussi

Beloi
B

Ql1

Qa

Suai Kota

90

90

Qa

~ 100 ka

Ql1

~ 125 ka

Ql2

Ql

Ql

Manatutu

Alluvium

0.01 Ma

Qvd

Ql3

90

Ql3

PLEISTOCENE

ELLIPSOID...........................................................WORLD GEODETIC SYSTEM 1984

GRID.................................................................................5000 METRE UTM ZONE 51
PROJECTION...................................................................TRANSVERSE MERCATOR
VERTICAL DATUM...........................................................................MEAN SEA LEVEL
HORIZONTAL DATUM..........................................WORLD GEODETIC SYSTEM 1984

95

QUATERNARY

GN

Qir

Qa

95
DATUM NOTES

Qvd

HOLOCENE

View south along eastern coastline of Ataro north of Beloi (photography K. Ely)

Pale grey massive limestone, carbonate cemented

beach conglomerate, bioturbated and fossiliferous
carbonaceous sand and mud. Terrace levels (Ql1Ql7) represent sea level highstands.

Ql4

Ql5

Ql6

90
Ql7

Ql

ATARO
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VOCANIC AND INTRUSIVE ROCKS

Ql2

Undifferentiated limestone, conglomerate, sand

and mud. Terrace level unassigned.

Ql

Ql

DILI
240733

LIQUICA
240724

Maker

INDEX TO ADJOINING MAPS

Qvb

MAUBISSI
240731

SOIBADA
240732

Qir

Qa

ATSABE
240722

2.6 Ma

Qa

OMBAI STRAIT

LACLO
240734

Ql

Ql3

Qid

Qvb

Ql2

Makadade

Rhyodacite

Pale grey commonly massive subvolcanic rhyodacite with hb and plag

phenocrysts (1-5 mm) in a fine-grained to glassy matrix.

Dacite

Commonly massive subvolcanic dacite with hb and plag phenocrysts

(1-5 mm) in a fine-grained matrix.

Ql3

GEOLOGICAL MAPPING (2005)

Ql

Ql

Fransisco de Assis Pinto

Harmenio Corbafo
Joao Edmundo Dos Reis

SEKRETARIA ESTADU REKURSUS NATURAIS

Repblica Democrtica de Timor-Leste

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Kim Ely
Daniel Ervin
Tom Gardner
Kate Harper
Margaret Hawke
Mark Quigley
Mike Sandiford

Qvb

Ql

Qvt

Ql

Ql1

Ql2

3.5 Ma

Ql

Ql

Ql6

Qvt

Ql7

WETAR

Ql

Ql5

Ql1

Qa

Ql3

Ql3
Ql2

Ql3

Berau

3.3 Ma
K/Ar

Nameta

Abbott, M.J., and Chamalaun, F.H., 1981. Geochronology of some Banda Arc volcanics. In: Wirosuyono, S. (Ed.),
The Geology and Tectonics of Eastern Indonesia. Geological Research and Development Centre, Special Publication
2, pp. 253271.

Qvt

Ql4

Ql2

K/Ar

Ql5

Ql3

3.3 Ma

3.1 Ma

STRAIT

Ql3

Qvt

Ql4

Ql1

Ar/Ar
90

90

Lava and breccia. Unit consists of monomict commonly vesicular clasts

(2500 mm) with plag and occasional cpx phenocrysts in a fine-grained
to glassy matrix.

Ql6

Ql5

Ql2

Blueblack lava and breccia with cpx, opx and plag phenocrysts (> 20
mm) in a microcrystaline matrix.

Ql7

Ql4

Ql1

Basaltic andesite

Ql

Ql6

Ql5

Ql4

Ql1

Qvd

Makili

Ql7

REFERENCE MATERIAL

3.3 Ma

Qvb

Stratified polymict dacite and scoriaceous breccia. Polymict layers consist of angular to sub-angular dacite clasts (2500 mm) interbedded with
scoria and ash. Sedimentary structures common.

Dacite

Ql

Ql3

Chappell, J. and Veeh, H.H., 1978. Late Quaternary tectonic movements and sea-level changes at Timor and Atauro
Island. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 89, 356368.

Qvd

Qvt

Ql

Qvb

Ql

Ql3

MAP LAYOUT
SCHOOL OF EARTH SCIENCES
The University of Melbourne

85

3.33.1 Ma

Qvt

Mt Berau

Ql

Steven Boger
Kim Ely
Daniel Ervin
Margaret Hawke

Vila

Dacitic tuff and volcanoclastic sediment

Qvb

Ql3

SCHOOL OF EARTH SCIENCES

The University of Melbourne, Australia

Mt Manucoco

Ql

Mt Tutonairana

Ql

Ql

Ql

PLIOCENE

CONTRIBUTIONS TO CARTOGRAPHY

NEOGENE

Ql1

80

80

Ely, K.S., Sandiford, M., Hawke, M.L., Phillips, D., Quigley, M. and Reis, J.E.D. 2011. Evolution of Ataro Island:
Temporal constraints on subduction processes beneath the Wetar zone, Banda Arc. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences,
41, 477493.

ELEVATION GUIDE
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SCALE 1:50 000

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2500 m

2000 m
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MAJOR ROCK UNITS AND STRUCTURAL FEATURES

KILOMETRES

3000 m

442

80

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00

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90
1500 m

85

1000 m

500 m
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co

Ql

12540 E
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Ql2

0m

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co

90

00

91

ive

85

Ql

1000 m

1000 m

Ql1
Qvd

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90

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Ql

Ql

Ql

Qa

0m

Qid

0m

Qvd

-1000 m

1000 m

Ql
Ql

Ql

00

95

Qvt

Ql3

Qvb

aR

80

Ql

lin

Vila Scarp

Ql

ta
Mo

75

1000 m

70

ra

Be

Mt

RELIABILITY DIAGRAM
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nu

820 S
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Ma

80

Mt

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-1000 m

-1000 m

Ql

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Qa

90

90

90

0m

Qvd

-1000 m
Villa Scarp

999

85

85

85

HOLOCENE ALLUVIUM
90

90

PLEISTOCENE LIMESTONE

85

85

PLIOCENE INTRUSIVE ROCKS

90

90

80

80

PLIOCENE EXTRUSIVE ROCKS

90

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BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Ely, K.E., Corbafo, H., Erwin, D., Gardner, T., Harper, K., Hawke, M.L., Pinto, F.A., Reis, J.E.D., Quigley, M. & Sandiford, M.
2012. Ataro 1:50 000 geological map. The University of Melbourne

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