Traditionally active rifts are thought to evolve in response to thermal upwelling of the
asthenosphere, whereas passive rifts develop in response to lithospheric extension driven …

The continental breakup which gave way to the formation of the oceanic South China Sea
(SCS) basin began in the latest Cretaceous in the northeastern SCS and propagated in …

The distribution of unconformities and end of Cenozoic rifting events in the South China
Seas (SCS) reflects both the modes of rift development, and the effects of driving …

ABSTRACT The Cenozoic evolution of SE Asia records a diverse array of tectonic processes
with rifting, subduction, terrane collision and large-scale continental strike-slip faulting …

Abstract Basaltic lavas from Hainan Island near the northern edge of the South China Sea
have an age range of between late Miocene (about 13 Ma) and Holocene, with a peak age …

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 …

Internal structures in mature oceanic crust can elucidate understanding of the processes and
mechanism of crustal accretion. In this study, we present two multi-channel seismic (MCS) …

Rifting of continental margins is generally diachronous along the zones where continents
break due to various factors including the boundary conditions which trigger the extensional …

The South China Sea formed by magma-poor, or intermediate volcanic rifting in the
Paleogene. We investigate the structure of the continent-ocean transition (COT) at its …

Different models have been proposed for the formation and tectonic evolution of the South
China Sea (SCS), including extrusion of the Indochina Peninsula, backarc extension, two …