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Volume 20 Issue 1
Feb 2009
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Xiangjie Wu, Xiong Pang, Hesheng Shi, Min He, Jun Shen, Xiangtao Zhang, Dengke Hu. Deep Structure and Dynamics of Passive Continental Margin from Shelf to Ocean of the Northern South China Sea. Journal of Earth Science, 2009, 20(1): 38-48. doi: 10.1007/s12583-009-0004-5
Citation: Xiangjie Wu, Xiong Pang, Hesheng Shi, Min He, Jun Shen, Xiangtao Zhang, Dengke Hu. Deep Structure and Dynamics of Passive Continental Margin from Shelf to Ocean of the Northern South China Sea. Journal of Earth Science, 2009, 20(1): 38-48. doi: 10.1007/s12583-009-0004-5

Deep Structure and Dynamics of Passive Continental Margin from Shelf to Ocean of the Northern South China Sea

doi: 10.1007/s12583-009-0004-5
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the National Natural Science Foundation of China 40238060

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  • Corresponding author: Wu Xiangjie, wuxj@cnooc.com.cn
  • Received Date: 30 Oct 2008
  • Accepted Date: 03 Dec 2008
  • To study the deep dynamic mechanism leading to the difference in rifting pattern and basin structure from shelf to oceanic basin in passive continental margin, we constructed long geological sections across the shelf, slope and oceanic basin using new seismic data. Integrated gravity-magnetic inversion and interpretation of these sections were made with the advanced dissection method. Results show that the basement composition changes from intermediate-acid intrusive rocks in the shelf to intermediate-basic rocks in the slope. The Moho surface shoals gradually from 31 km in the shelf to 22.5 km in the uplift and then 19 km in the slope and finally to 13 km in the oceanic basin. The crust thickness also decreases gradually from 30 km in the northern fault belt to 9 km in the oceanic basin. The crustal stretching factor increases from the shelf toward the oceanic basin, with the strongest extension under the sags and the oceanic basin. The intensity of mantle upwelling controlled the style of basin structures from shelf to oceanic basin. In the Zhu 1 depression on the shelf, the crust is nearly normal, the brittle and cold upper crust mainly controlled the fault development; so the combinative grabens with single symmetric graben are characteristic. In the slope, the crust thinned with a large stretching factor, affected by the mantle upwelling. The ductile deformation controlled the faults, so there developed an asymmetric complex graben in the Baiyun (白云) sag.

     

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