东南亚古地磁研究所展现的成果,忽视了地区构造的复杂性。例如,一些工作人员提出“异类他地区”的中生代古磁方位暗示了“异他克拉通”自中生代以来表现为一个独特的构造单元.这些研究忽视了这样的事实,即现今“异他克拉通”中的一部分是一些在新生代被熔接到克拉通上的外来块体,而其它大部分(如马来亚)被许多走滑断层所切割.这些走滑断层提供了新生代巨量位移的证据。除构造问题外,较老岩石可能被再磁化所混染.如果工作人员不将获得的较年轻岩石古地磁数据与从 Southeast Asian Institute of paleomagnetic evidence showed the neglect of the complexity of the regional structure. For example, some workers have suggested that the Mesozoic paleomagnetic orientation of “heterogeneous areas” implies that “alien craton” has been characterized as a unique tectonic unit since the Mesozoic era and ignores the fact that today’s “ ”Some of these are alien blocks that were fused to the craton in the Cenozoic and most of the other (such as Malaya) were cut by many strike-slip faults that provided a massive displacement of the Cenozoic evidence. In addition to tectonic problems, older rocks may be contaminated with magnetization again.If a worker does not compare the older paleomagnetic data obtained from