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- Title
The Hupo Basin, a neotectonic piggyback basin on the eastern Korean margin.
- Authors
Lee, Jae-Hyuk; Kim, Gi-Bom
- Abstract
This study focuses on the post-Miocene neotectonic evolution of the slope-perched sedimentary basins around the Eastern Korean Continental Margin and which category these basins could be classified into. The Hupo Basin, the largest neotectonic sedimentary basin on the Eastern Korean Continental Margin, comprises three key geological components: 1) Neotectonic Sequence, which has divergently filled the Hupo Basin since the Early Pliocene, 2) Hupo Fault, a N-S striking, high-angle thrust (or reverse) fault that bounds the Hupo Basin to the east, and 3) Hupo Bank, a N-S elongated submarine wave-cut platform that sits on top of the uplifted eastern Hupo Fault block. On the basis of stratigraphic and structural restoration, we conclude that the Hupo Basin was formed by the compressional uplift of the Hupo Bank during the incipient subduction of the Ulleung Basin crust after the Miocene. Given the morphostructural features of the Hupo Basin and its host incipient subduction system, we categorize it as a sort of piggyback basins. The basin-forming process shown in this study is commonly found in numerical models that simulate modern cases of subduction initiation around the world.
- Subjects
SUBDUCTION; GRABENS (Geology); CONTINENTAL margins; PLIOCENE Epoch; MIOCENE Epoch
- Publication
Geosciences Journal, 2024, Vol 28, Issue 5, p671
- ISSN
1226-4806
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12303-024-0032-2