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Search PROCEEDING INDONESIAN PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION

Second Annual Convention, June 1973

CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE

OF SOUTH WEST JAVA
PAUL BAUMANN*
PATRICK DE GENEVRAYE *
LUKl SAMUEL
MUDJITO +*
SRI SAJEKTI **

INTRODUCTION high; and to the South, the Cimandiri zone,

the Jampang segment and the Ciletuh high.
This paper summarizes the most important
results of a field campaign carried out by Lemi- These units are primarily defined by their
gas in 1972 in South West Java. It consisted of morphology : reliefs and depressions, that are
geological mapping in the Hondje, Pelabuanratu often well contrasted in this region, correspond
and Sukabumi areas and in surveying detailed to structural highs and lows respectively. In
lithological sections across all the structural addition, most of the boundaries between the
units in the area. This geological work was sup highs and lows are confirmed by well marked
plemented by a reconnaissance gravity survey. gravity gradients.
(Fig. 1) From the viewDoints of structure, lithofacies
Datation of the numerous formations and and geological history, these units are thought
members, chiefly using planktonic and larger to belong, regionwise, to different larger g e o b
Foraminifera, permitted to establish fairly ac- gical zones in lava :
curate stratigraphic correlations in this region. - the West Malingping low is considered to
This work, combined with a compilation of be the westernmost part of the axial
published and unpublished reports, resulted in trough of Java;
flew stratigraphic data and complementary struc-
- the Bayah high, the Ciletuh high and the
tural information on several geological units in
central part of the Jampang segment
South West Java.
make up the core of the axial ridge of
The studied area is 180 km long and covers a Java;
surface of about 6.900 sq. km. Its northern
- the northern slope of the axial ridge
limit can be figured as a line which runs from
corresponds to the Cibadak-Pelabuanratu
Sukabumi in the East, passes Cibadak and the
low, the Sukabumi high, the Cimandiri
Halimun volcanoes aqd reaches the Sunda strait
zone and the northern part of the Jampang
in the West at the bay of Labuan. The eastern
segment; this large geological zone corres-
boundary corresponds to the meridian of Suka-
bumi. This area extends westwards to the Ujung ponds to the western extension of. the
so-called "Bandung zone" by former au-
Kulon and is bordered t o the South by the In-
dian Ocean. thors;
- the southern part of the Jampang segment
The authors thank the management of LE-
MIGAS and PERTAMINA for permission to belongs to the southern slope of the
publish this paper. axial ridge.
The above interpretation of the structural
STRUCTURAL SETTING setting obviously supposes that the Bayah and
From West to East, the studied area com- * B.E.I.C.I.P., Bureau <Etudes Industrielles et de
pnses the following structural units : the Honje Cooperation de 1'Institut Franpis de Pdttrole.
high, the West Malingping low, the Bayah high, ** LEMIGAS, Lembaga Minyak dan Gas Bumi
the Cibadak-Pelabuanratu low, the Sukabumi (Indonesian Petroleum Institute).
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and lava flows have been deposited during the

C Iletuh highs were originally aligned, and later
on shifted to their present position along a whole early Miocene. They are known, from
NNE-SSW trznding major wrench faults system. West to East,,as the volcaniclastics of Gunung
Honje in the Honje high, the Cimapag beds in
Another deep-seated major fault, also NNE-
the Bayah high, and the Jampang beds in the
SSW trending, may be inferred from the East Jampang segment and the Ciletuh high. In the
dipping gravity gradient marked between the
Sukabumi high, succeeding the Rajamandala
Honje high and the West Malingping low. limestone, fine volcaniclastics were under depo-
sition : the Citarum beds.
STRATIGRAPHY
This volcanic activity is believed t o have
The Pretertiary basement only crops out in
started earlier in the Bayah high, in the Oligo-
the Ciletuh region, in the South of the Jampang
cene or even Eocene. Whether it also started
segment. It is metamorphosed and made of
earlier in the Honje area is still doubtful as no
schists and phyllites intruded by ultrabasic
outcrop older than early Miocene has ever been
rocks.
found there.
The basement is unconformably covered by This volcanism persisted up to the early part
conglomerates and sandstones of a late Eocene of the middle Miocene in the Honje high
to early Oligocene age : the Ciletuh beds. (volcaniclastics and andesitic lava flows) and in
The quartz sandstone of Gunung Walat, the Bayah high (Badui beds); it decreases in the
which is the oidest outcropping unit in the Cimandiri area and the Jampang segment, where
Sukabumi high, is a northern facies equivalent tuffacepus. calcareous sediments, the so-called
to the Ciletuh beds. It is barren of marine Lengkong beds, have been deposited in the
fossils and is thought to have been deposited. latest early Miocene.
as a fluvial sediment. Some spores and pollens The next younger sediments, the Cimandiri
indicate a most probable age of early Oligocene formation, outcropping in South West Java, are
in the Sukabumi high. There, this unit is of a late middle Miocene age and unconformably
conformably succeeded by the marine math overlie the early Miocene volcaniclastics. The
of Batuasih of a late Oligocene age according to Cimandiri formation displays several facies,
its scattered planktonic foraminiferal fauna. littoral to neritic.
A similar, however older, sedimentary se- In the Bayah and Honje highs, the transgres-
quence can be encountered in the Bayah region, sion started somewhat later in the late Miocene
where the clastic Bayah beds grade upwards and Pliocene respectively with the Cimanceuri
into the neritic calcareous Cicarucup beds of beds. These beds are a western facies of the
a late Eocene age. volcaniclastics of the Bentang beds of the
In the Sukabumi high the earlier formations Jampang area.
are unconformably covered by a fairly thick In the central part of the kegion, young vol-
reefal limestone : the Rajamandala limestone. caniclastics andlava flows unconformably cover
This limestone can be traced from the Raja- the older deposits; whether this last volcanic
mandala ridge, West of Bandung, across the activity has already started in the latest Pliocene
Sukabumi high, to the Bayah high, where it is is still uncertain.
considered to correspond at least partly to the Recent alluvials, but also Quaternary reefal
Cimapag beds. limestones in the Honje high, are unconformably
Whether part of the limestone in the vol- succeeding the older formations.
caniclastics of Gunung Honje is a facies eqw-
valent of the earlymost Miocene Rajamandala
limestone is still doubtful. TECTONICS
During the deposition of the Rajamandala The folded and metamorphosed Pretertiary
limestone in the Sukabumi high, volcanic acti- basement of the Ciletuh area, beneath the
vity started to take place in different areas of unconformable Eo-Oligocene sandstones, witnes-
South West Java, where thick volcaniclastics ses the first evident orogenesis in the region.
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From the late Oligocene t o the Quaternary, The numerous NE-SW trending strike-slip faults,
four tectonic phases, often associated with that obliquely cut across the preexisting struc-
volcanic activity and intrusions, can be traced ture are also related to this Pliocene phase. The
in South West Java. Jampang Ciletuh block would have been shifted
1. During the late Oligocene and the early- toward SSW at that time.
most Miocene, the Eo-Oligocene sandstone: It is not known whether these movements
have been folded : NE-SW trending anticlines lasted till early Quaternary.
can be pointed out in the Ciletuh region. 4. The Quaternary volcanic activity is pro-
Several E-W trending structural units (e.g. bably related to the last tectonic movements
Sukabumi high, Cibadak-Pelabuanratu low, Ci- which led to the present structure of South
mandiri zone) had already taken shape after West Java.
this tectonic phase. In this eastern area vertical
movements occurred, whilst more t o the West,
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