The onset of seafloor spreading at the northeastern continent-ocean boundary of the South China Sea

2021 ◽  
pp. 105255
Author(s):  
Yonglin Wen ◽  
Chun-Feng Li ◽  
Lijie Wang ◽  
Yutao Liu ◽  
Xi Peng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Seafloor Spreading ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Ocean Boundary

Jump event of mid-ocean ridge during the eastern subbasin evolution of the South China Sea

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. SP67-SP77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Qiu ◽  
Yingmin Wang ◽  
Wenkai Huang ◽  
Weiguo Li ◽  
Haiteng Zhuo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Seafloor Spreading ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Magnetic Data ◽  
The South ◽  
Tectonic Event ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Mid Ocean Ridge ◽  
Ocean Ridge

The South China Sea is one of the largest marginal seas in the Western Pacific region, and it has been widely accepted that the evolution of the basin and the development of its oceanic crusts is closely linked to seafloor spreading. A great controversy, however, is around whether or not there was a jump of mid-ocean ridges during seafloor spreading, particularly in the eastern South China Sea subbasin. A tectonostratigraphic interpretation using high-resolution seismic data demonstrated that: (1) a southward jump event of the mid-ocean ridge took place in the eastern subbasin during the seafloor spreading; (2) the orientation of the mid-ocean ridge had dramatically changed after the event resulting in that the abandoned mid-ocean ridge is along an east–west direction, whereas the younger one is generally east–northeast/west–southwest oriented; (3) the corresponding surface caused by the jump tectonic event and the pre-event sequence can be traced throughout the earlier formed oceanic crust; and (4) paleo-magnetic data showed that the event occurred at approximately 25–23.8 Ma. The results of this study could be used to better understand the evolution and filling of the South China Sea and other associated marginal basins.

Reply to Chang et al., 2014, Evolution of the South China Sea: Revised ages for breakup and seafloor spreading

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 679-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo Barckhausen ◽  
Martin Engels ◽  
Dieter Franke ◽  
Stefan Ladage ◽  
Manuel Pubellier
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Seafloor Spreading ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea

40Ar/39Ar dating of oceanic plagiogranite: Constraints on the initiation of seafloor spreading in the South China Sea

Lithos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 302-303 ◽  
pp. 421-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Feng Zhong ◽  
Guan-Qiang Cai ◽  
Anthony A.P. Koppers ◽  
Yi-Gang Xu ◽  
He-Hua Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Seafloor Spreading ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea ◽  
Oceanic Plagiogranite

scholarly journals Seismic Evidence for Tectonically Dominated Seafloor Spreading in the Southwest Sub-basin of the South China Sea

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 3459-3477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhui Yu ◽  
Pin Yan ◽  
Yanlin Wang ◽  
Jinchang Zhang ◽  
Yan Qiu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
South China ◽  
Seafloor Spreading ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea
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