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The Region, as herein defined, comprises a number of countries on the southern margin of Asia from Pakistan in the west to Vietnam in the east, as well as Australasia and the Pacific Islands. It excludes China, North Korea and the former Soviet Union, on account of their Communist background. It covers a diverse terrain of 19 million km2, made up of two ancient shield areas, comprising the margins of the Siberian Shield to the north and that of Australia to the south, which are separated by mobile island arcs, largely following tectonic plate boundaries. Various, mainly Tertiary, sedimentary basins flank the shields and mobile belts, and some of them, especially offshore, are prospective for oil and gas.
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Campbell, C.J. (2013). Asia Pacific Region. In: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3576-1_26
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