Crustal structure of the South China Sea continental margin: many rifts in on
| Autor: | Cameselle, Alejandra L., Ranero, César R., Barckhausen, Udo, Franke, Dieter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname |
| Popis: | European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018, 8-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.-- 1 page Rifted continental margins result from extension of continental lithosphere leading to breakup and the onset of seafloor spreading, with the modes of extension and the transition to spreading are typically described with end-member conceptual models. Here, we examine the rifting evolution of the South China Sea from geophysical and geological observations. We analyze the tectonic structure of a complete > 1000 km long transect encompassing the entire rift system to study the mechanisms for crustal extension and final breakup. The images of the entire rift segments permit us to study the symmetry/asymmetry of conjugate margins and the evolution of the processes controlling their contrasting geometry and crustal architecture. Our observations indicate that the broad-scale several 100 km wide segments at both conjugate margins of the of the South China Sea underwent largely simultaneous extensional deformation from early Eocene (∼45 Ma)to late Oligocene – early Miocene (∼23 Ma), which result in a∼850 km-wide area of stretched continental crustabutting∼200 km of oceanic crust. The seismic profiles show several areas where continental crust is thinned down to |
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