Ocean-continent transition architecture and breakup mechanism at the mid-northern South China Sea

C Zhang, Z Sun, G Manatschal, X Pang, S Li… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Ocean-Continent Transition (OCT) located between the edge of the continental and
unequivocal oceanic crusts is an ideal laboratory to understand one of the most fundamental …

South China Sea documents the transition from wide continental rift to continental break up

H Deng, J Ren, X Pang, PF Rey, KR McClay… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
During extension, the continental lithosphere thins and breaks up, forming either wide or
narrow rifts depending on the thermo-mechanical state of the extending lithosphere. Wide …

Syn-rift magmatic characteristics and evolution at a sediment-rich margin: Insights from high-resolution seismic data from the South China Sea

C Zhang, Z Sun, G Manatschal, X Pang, N Qiu, M Su… - Gondwana …, 2021 - Elsevier
The interaction between magmatic and extensional processes related to the formation of
rifted margins has been and still is highly debated. The interpretation of magmatic additions …

Extension modes and breakup processes of the southeast China-Northwest Palawan conjugate rifted margins

M Nirrengarten, G Mohn, NJ Kusznir, F Sapin… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Our understanding of continent-ocean transition structures and magmatism in the absence
of excessive magmatic additions has been guided by the observations and models …

Large volume of magma involved in South China Sea rifting: Implication for mantle breakup earlier than crust

J Zhang, M Zhao, Z Sun, L Sun, M Xu, H Yang, Q Wang… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Rheological differences may lead to discrepant thinning order of the crust and lithospheric
mantle when the continent is passively stretched. The crust breaks up earlier than the …

Cenozoic basement-involved rifting of the northern South China Sea margin

Y Suo, S Li, G Peng, X Du, J Zhou, P Wang, G Wang… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The northern South China Sea (SCS) margin developed on a thinning crust
comprising basement-involved structures inherited from the post-orogenic extension of the …

The tectono-stratigraphic and magmatic evolution of conjugate rifted margins: Insights from the NW South China Sea

P Chao, G Manatschal, P Chenin, J Ren, C Zhang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study is based on a careful analysis of high-quality reflection seismic sections located at
the tip of the NW South China Sea V-shaped rift basin. Using the CGN-1 section, a seismic …

Breakup mechanism of the northern South China Sea: Evidence from the deep crustal structure across the continent-ocean transition

Q Wang, M Zhao, J Zhang, H Zhang, JC Sibuet, Z Li… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
To improve constraints on breakup processes that eventually lead to seafloor spreading and
the subsequent formation of new oceanic crust in the northern margin of the South China …

The syn‐rift tectono‐stratigraphic record of rifted margins (Part II): A new model to break through the proximal/distal interpretation frontier

P Chenin, G Manatschal, JF Ghienne, P Chao - Basin Research, 2022 - earthdoc.org
One fundamental lesson from the last decade's research into rifted margins is that
stratigraphic horizons cannot be simply correlated from the proximal into distal domain …

Extension discrepancy of the hyper‐thinned continental crust in the baiyun rift, northern margin of the South China Sea

Y Zhao, W Ding, J Ren, J Li, D Tong, J Zhang - Tectonics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
At rifted continental margins, it has been widely reported that the amount of extension
measured from faulting is less than the one observed from crustal and lithospheric thinning …