Citation: | SHANG Luning, ZHANG Yong, YAO Yongjian, WU Hao, HU Gang, TIAN Zhixian. 2020. Late Cenozoic evolution of East China continental margin and restoration of plate interaction processes[J]. Geology in China, 47(5): 1323-1336. doi: 10.12029/gc20200503 |
The tectonic activities of the continental margin of eastern China during the Late Cenozoic were mainly concentrated on the eastern margin of the East China Sea. Since the Miocene, a series of major tectonic processes, such as the subduction of the Philippine plate, the back-arc rifting of the Okinawa Trough and the Taiwan arc-continent collision, have shaped the present tectonic-geomorphological patterns of the Ryukyu trench-arc-back-arc basin system, the Taiwan collision orogenic belt and the northeastern South China Sea. Based on the interpretation of gravity, magnetism and multi-channel seismic data and combined with previous research results, the authors restored the tectonic evolution history of the Okinawa Trough and clarified the relationship between the back-arc tension of the Okinawa Trough and the Taiwan arc-land collision. On such a basis, the interaction processes between the Eurasian plate, the Philippine Sea plate and the South China Sea plate since Miocene were reconstructed, and a new model of plate interaction was proposed. This work is helpful to the further understanding of the constraints and effects of deep dynamic and thermal processes on shallow tectonic framework changes in the context of plate convergence on the East Asian continental margin.
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Free-air gravity anomaly (a) and total field magnetic anomaly (b) in and around the Okinawa Trough
Correlation of the seismic stratigraphic sequences in and around the Okinawa Trough
Stratigraphic structure beneath the gentle slope of the middle Okinawa Trough(The red lines are faults, see Fig. 2 for location)
Structural characteristics of the Ho Basin in the middle Okinawa Trough (The red lines are faults, see Fig. 2 for location)
Stratigraphic structure beneath the steep slope of the middle Okinawa Trough(The red lines are faults, see Fig. 2 for location)
Basement structure of the middle Diaoyudao Uplift revealed by seismic reflection profile (The red lines are faults, see Fig. 2 for location)
Basement and stratigraphic structures of the southern Okinawa Trough(The red lines are faults, see Fig. 2 for location)
Structural characteristics of the shelf margin west of the southern Okinawa Trough revealed by seismic reflection profile (The red lines are faults, see Fig. 2 for location)
Schematic map showing the Late Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of the Okinawa Trough and the Luzon-Taiwan collision zone