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P2 AP PHOTO Jurassic Macau TAIWAN More than 1,000 people attended a mass wedding banquet in Taiwan’s capital to celebrate the marriage of same-sex couples after a landmark decision legalizing the unions. AP PHOTO THAILAND Prem Tinsulanonda, who as an army commander, prime minister and adviser to the royal palace was one of Thailand’s most influential political figures over four decades, died yesterday at age 98. AP PHOTO Thousands march in AP PHOTO Tiananmen memorial JAPAN President Donald Trump presented a special U.S.-made This year’s march has taken on additional trophy to the winner of a sumo tournament significance as opposition to an extradition yesterday as he got a taste of one of Japan’s law amendment widely seen as dangerous most treasured cultural institutions. P8 HONG KONG More on backpage 27.05.2019 mon th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 WWW.MACAUDAILYTIMES.COM.MO BLOOMBERG By knowing the age of the different places in the world [...] we can better understand plate tectonics. PROFESSOR ÁGATA DIAS JURASSIC MACAU Study shows peninsula was formed 156m years ago, after Taipa, Coloane Lynzy Valles Emplacement,” the mineralogi- were cut by volcanic dykes. ted that the data collected was The study was funded by the cal and whole-rock geochemical “Given the relatively short time the first of its kind. Macao Science and Technology study co-conducted by the characteristics support the exis- span between the two pulses and “This has relevance not only Development Fund (FDCT) and A Institute of Science and En- tence of two distinct groups of the chemical similarity of the for history and knowing how will be presented in the upco- vironment of the University of granites in Macau. less evolved rocks, the observed Macau was formed, but also for ming Goldschmidt Conference Saint Joseph (USJ) found that The researchers believed that differences in the evolutionary geology. By knowing the age of in Barcelona. the once-islands of Taipa and Co- these were emplaced in two pul- trends are probably the result the different places in the world Additionally, according to the loane were first formed between ses during the Upper Jurassic of a change in magma evolution and knowing how they were for- Cultural Affairs Bureau’s Cultu- 162 to 165 million years ago. The period. processes rather than in tectonic med, we can better understand ral Heritage of Macao website, Macau peninsula was said to “It is noteworthy that the Ma- setting,” it added. plate tectonics in general,” Dias a large quantity of quartz and have been formed later, between cau Jurassic granites are mostly The tectonic setting was domi- told the Times. crystal flakes used for the pro- 156 to 157 million years ago. biotite monogranites, as in other nantly extensional related to the “This is not just important for duction of quartz rings, semi-fi- The findings were based on areas of Southeast China,” the foundering of the “subducting Macau, it is also important for nished products and other tools ancient zircon crystals collected study explained. paleo-Pacific plate under the South China and the rest of the were found in 2006. in the region that were formed The research, which was initia- Eurasian plate during the Mid- world, in terms of what we know The bureau said that the fin- during the Jurassic period, ac- ted back in 2016 by Macau and dle to Upper Jurassic.” about plate tectonics,” added dings discovered in the excava- cording to the researchers. Portuguese scientists, indicates Professor Ágata Dias from the Dias. tions between 1973 to 2006 cou- According to a geological study that some areas, including Vale USJ Institute of Science and En- The professor said that there ld lead to inferences that there titled, “High-Precision Geochro- das Borboletas in Seac Pai Van, vironment, who coordinated the would be another paper to be was some human occupation in nology of Mesozoic Magmatism were only created less than 120 research, explained to the Times published explaining how Ma- the island of Coloane during the in Macao, Southeast China: Evi- million years ago during the Cre- that the study assists plate tecto- cau was formed in the following Neolithic period, around 6000 dence for Multistage Granite taceous period, as granitic rocks nic research in Macau. She no- months. years ago. 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