Abstract The Late Cretaceous is a significant geologic period in the South China Sea area,
as it marks the tectonic transition from the early Paleo-Pacific Plate subduction to the …

Back-arc basins and the related subduction systems have been extensively studied,
however back-arc basins exhibiting episodic jumps of extension centers by the subduction …

A detailed 3‐D model of P wave isotropic velocity and azimuthal anisotropy beneath SE Asia
is obtained by jointly inverting local earthquake arrival times and teleseismic relative travel …

Water is the most common volatile component inside the Earth. A substantial amount of
water can be carried down to the interior of the Earth by subducting plates. However, how …

Insight into the evolution of Philippine Sea‐South China Sea (SCS) plate motions helps
reveal the driving mechanisms of the long‐term tectonic complexity in Southeast Asia. Here …

Core complex type structures are common in continental margins. Recent studies have
proposed exhumation of deeper crustal and mantle levels during extension of the …

Recent tomography-based tectonic (tomotectonic) reconstructions provide important new
insights on past subduction processes. However, some of these exercises violate key …

Abstract The northern South China Sea continental margin is the key or critical segment of
the Ocean-Continent Connection Zone (OCCZ) of the Great South China Block, the junction …

SE Asia comprises a heterogeneous assemblage of fragments derived from Cathaysia
(Eurasia) in the north and Gondwana in the south, separated by suture zones representing …

We present a new extensional tectonic model for the Cenozoic history of SE Asia and the
opening of the South China Sea (SCS), proposing a feedback mechanism by which …