Deep penetration seismic soundings across the northern margin of the South China Sea

1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (B11) ◽  
pp. 22407-22433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Spangler Nissen ◽  
Dennis E. Hayes ◽  
Peter Buhl ◽  
John Diebold ◽  
Yao Bochu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Deep Penetration ◽  
The South ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
China Sea

Crustal stretching style variations in the northern margin of the South China Sea

2019 ◽  
Vol 751 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongliang Bai ◽  
Dongdong Dong ◽  
Sascha Brune ◽  
Shiguo Wu ◽  
Zhenjie Wang
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
China Sea

A study on tectonic and sedimentary development in the rifted northern continental margin of the South China Sea near Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. SP47-SP65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Zhi Liao ◽  
Andrew T. Lin ◽  
Char-Shine Liu ◽  
Jung-Nan Oung ◽  
Yunshuen Wang
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Continental Crust ◽  
South China ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Seismic Facies ◽  
The South ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Breakup Unconformity

A series of Cenozoic rifted basins developed in the northern margin of the South China Sea (SCS). Tainan Basin is one of these rifted basins near Taiwan, lying in the outer margin. We have used reflection seismic data in the deepwater areas and boreholes drilled in the shelf of the Tainan Basin to understand the tectonic and sedimentary development in the northern SCS margin near Taiwan. Four key stratal surfaces (i.e., the base of the Pleistocene Series, the base of the Pliocene Series, the 17 Ma maximum flooding surface [MFS], and a breakup unconformity of approximately 30 Ma in age) and seven seismic facies (i.e., continuous- and parallel-layer seismic facies, wavy seismic facies, chaotic seismic facies, U-shaped canyon-cut seismic facies, imbricated-layer seismic facies, high-amplitude reflector package seismic facies, and extrusive volcanism seismic facies) are recognized from seismic data with ages constrained by borehole stratigraphy drilled in the shelf. We have established a model for Cenozoic tectonic and sedimentary development in the rifted northern margin of the SCS near Taiwan. The occurrence of Paleogene fault-bounded grabens/half-grabens topped by a breakup unconformity and draped by postrift sediments indicates that these deepwater rifted basins developed on the continental crust, attesting that a thinned continental crust underlies the deepwater study area, rather than oceanic crust as reported in some literature. Postbreakup extrusive volcanic bodies, of early Miocene age, were buried by thick deepwater sediments. Fairly continuous stratal surfaces of 17 Ma MFS reveal that volcanic activities ceased to be active since middle Miocene. A series of channel cut-and-fills is observed in late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene strata beneath and to the south of the modern Formosa Canyon. Two distinct fields of deepwater sediment waves developed since middle Pleistocene are found lying to the west of modern deformation front/Manila Trench and to the north and south of the Formosa Canyon, respectively.

Intrusion and its implication for subsidence: A case from the Baiyun Sag, on the northern margin of the South China Sea

2005 ◽  
Vol 407 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 117-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaobin Shi ◽  
Evgenii Burov ◽  
Sylvie Leroy ◽  
Xuelin Qiu ◽  
Bin Xia
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Baiyun Sag

Gravity, heat flow, and seismic constraints on the processes of crustal extension: Northern margin of the South China Sea

1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (B11) ◽  
pp. 22447-22483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Spangler Nissen ◽  
Dennis E. Hayes ◽  
Yao Bochu ◽  
Weijun Zeng ◽  
Yongqin Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flow ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Crustal Extension ◽  
The South ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
China Sea

Thermo-rheological structure of the northern margin of the South China Sea: Structural and geodynamic implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 777 ◽  
pp. 228338
Author(s):  
Jie Hu ◽  
Yuntao Tian ◽  
Zulie Long ◽  
Di Hu ◽  
Yuping Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
China Sea
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