“…For example, the origin of anomalous subsidence along the northern margin of the South China Sea and its relationship to dynamic topography helped to explain the evolution mechanisms of basins in the northern region of the South China Sea (Xie et al, 2006) and the migration of anomalous subsidence across the western Interior Basin in the Unites States, suggesting that the fundamental driver for subsidence in the Western Interior Basin is the dynamic pull of the sinking Farallon plate (Liu et al, 2011). Despite the wealth of publications regarding the origins of anomalous subsidence in passive continental margin basins (White, 1988;White and McKenzie, 1989;Davis and Kusznir, 2004;Ceramicola et al, 2005;Xie et al, 2006;Liao et al, 2011), anomalous subsidence in continental rift basins is not well understood. The authors of this paper distinguished anomalous post-rift subsidence in the Songliao Basin in northeastern China, and provided information to discuss the subsidence mechanism of the continental rift basin after the cessation of rifting.…”