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- Title
Paleogene marine deposition records of rifting and breakup of the South China Sea: An overview.
- Authors
Li, QianYu; Wu, GuoXuan; Zhang, LiLi; Shu, Yu; Shao, Lei
- Abstract
A compilation of available marine deposition data from offshore S-SE China reveals evidence of rifting and breakup of the South China Sea (SCS) during the Paleogene. Marine deposition started earlier in the Paleocene in the East China Sea (ECS)-Taiwan region before expanding southwestward into the SCS region in the middle Eocene. Our data indicate the existence of an elongated Paleogene China Sea in these areas stretching along the northeasterly structural belts, probably as part of the marginal western paleo-Pacific. The southwestward shift of marine influence in the middle Eocene was responding to a period of intensive rifting and subsidence in the SCS region, while the sea in the ECS-Taiwan region started to shrink and shoal after the late Eocene, likely associated with local breakup and initial spreading in the Taiwan-Taixinan Basin area. The accumulation of hemipelagic sediments at ODP 1148 and IODP U1435 from near the continent-ocean boundary and at many other shelf-slope sites was in response to a large-scale breakup 34 to 33 Ma ago, subsequently leading to the birth of the SCS in the Oligocene.
- Subjects
SOUTH China Sea; EAST China Sea; PALEOGENE; MARINE sediments; PLATE tectonics; SEDIMENTS
- Publication
SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, 2017, Vol 60, Issue 12, p2128
- ISSN
1674-7313
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11430-016-0163-x