Seismic sequence stratigrahy of the Xuande Atoll in the Xisha Islands

YANG Chaoyun; HAN Xiaohui; LUO Kun; FENG Yasheng; LIU Gang; CHEN Wanli; LI Xuelin; WU Shiguo

doi:10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2018.06.003

2018 Vol. 38, No. 6

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YANG Chaoyun, HAN Xiaohui, LUO Kun, FENG Yasheng, LIU Gang, CHEN Wanli, LI Xuelin, WU Shiguo. Seismic sequence stratigrahy of the Xuande Atoll in the Xisha Islands[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2018, 38(6): 25-36. doi: 10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2018.06.003

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YANG Chaoyun, HAN Xiaohui, LUO Kun, FENG Yasheng, LIU Gang, CHEN Wanli, LI Xuelin, WU Shiguo. Seismic sequence stratigrahy of the Xuande Atoll in the Xisha Islands[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2018, 38(6): 25-36. doi: 10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2018.06.003

Seismic sequence stratigrahy of the Xuande Atoll in the Xisha Islands

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Marine Geological Survey Institute of Hainan Province, Haikou 570206, China
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Laboratory of Marine Geophysics and Georesources, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572000, China

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Corresponding author: CHEN Wanli, chenwl@idsse.ac.cn

Received Date: 31 July 2018

Revised Date: 27 September 2018

Publish Date: 28 December 2018

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TheXuande Atoll, a Late Cenozoic carbonate platform, is now the capital of the Sansha city. In order to unravel the architecture of the atoll, we conducted an experiment of high-resolution seismic survey there. Four seismic profiles have been acquired so far. Interpretation suggests that there are five seismic sequences in the region from bottom to top, i.e. SQ1 (Lower Miocene), SQ2 (Middle Miocene), SQ3 (Upper Miocene), SQ4 (Pliocene) and SQ5 (Quaternary), respectively. By correlation to the established stratigtaphic framework, we discussed the characteristics and evolution of the platform in this paper. The seismic experiment has filled the blank of multiple channel seismic imaging, and offered an opportunity for seismic stratigraphic research on isolated carbonate platforms as such in the Xisha Islands.
- atoll /
- carboante platform /
- seismic experiment /
- seismic stratigraphy /
- Xisha Islands

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