NDLI: Rifting to drifting transition of the Southwest Subbasin of the South China Sea

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Author	Song, Taoran Li, Chun Feng
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Continental rupturing process and related dynamics on the onset of seafloor spreading remain poorly understood in the opening of the South China Sea. To constrain the timing and cause of major tectonic events, we focus on the rifting-to-drifting transition of the Southwest Subbasin, which has very wide extended continental margins. By carefully interpreting rifting structures and carbonate platforms and reefs, we distinguished two major unconformities, i.e., the breakup unconformity (BRU) and the mid-Miocene unconformity, in the two conjugate margins of the Southwest Subbasin. The age of the BRU in our study area is near the Oligocene/Miocene boundary (~23 Ma). Pre-stack depth migration of a recently acquired multichannel reflection seismic profile reveals complex structures and strong lateral velocity variations associated with a 3.5 km thick syn-rifting sequence developed right at the continent-ocean boundary (COB) of the Southwest Subbasin. This syn-rifting sequence is bounded landwards by a large seaward dipping fault, and tapers out seawards. An erosional truncation, which represents the mid-Miocene unconformity landwards but the older breakup unconformity on the seaward side, occurred at the top of this sequence. The overall transitional deformation style from the rifting to drifting suggests a successive episode of rifting, faulting, compression, tilting, and erosion at the COB during the crustal thinning and mantle upwelling. Localized thick syn-rifting deposition and early deposition beneath the BRU in the oceanic domain exist only at the seaward concave part of the COB, indicating discrete rifting and seafloor spreading prior to the buildup of a unified spreading center for the entire subbasin.
Starting Page	167
Ending Page	185
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00253235
Journal	Marine Geophysical Researches
Volume Number	36
Issue Number	2-3
e-ISSN	15730581
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-03-28
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Continent-ocean boundary Syn-rifting deposition Pre-stack depth migration Velocity analysis South China Sea Oceanography Geophysics/Geodesy Earth Sciences Offshore Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geochemistry and Petrology Geophysics Oceanography

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