Characteristics and evolution of Cenozoic sediments in the Liyue Basin, SE South China Sea

Yao, Yongjian; Liu, Hailing; Yang, Chen; Han, Bing; Tian, Jijun; Yin, Zhengxin; Gong, Junli; Qiaoyue, XU

doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.08.003

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“…1b for locations). In addition, we incorporated published stratigraphic schemes from the study area (Hinz and Schlueter 1985;Hinz et al 1989;Clift et al 2008;Franke et al 2008Franke et al , 2013Cullen et al 2010;Hutchison and Vijayan 2010;Yao et al 2012;Ding et al 2011). In the Fig.…”

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“…The corrections for compaction of sediments have been made by using porosity-depth relationships based on the observed lithologies (Sclater and Christie 1980). The lithology of each sequence and the palaeo-water depth information during the backstripping process have been referred to wells located in this area (such as the Sampaguita-1 well) and previous studies (Hinz and Schlueter 1985;Hazebroek and Tan 1993;Franke et al 2008;Cullen et al 2010;Yao et al 2012;Ding et al 2013). …”

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“…1 for their locations) have been used to constrain the palaeo-bathymetries in the study area. Several scientists have made a detailed biostratigraphic analysis to the above mentioned palaeo-bathymetries (Kudrass et al 1986;Schlueter et al 1996;Franke et al 2011;Yao et al 2012;Steuer et al 2013). The sediments older than Eocene show lacustrine and delta facies, composed of sandstones and shales, with coal.…”

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“…From a similar reflection pattern across ODP Site 1143 on the Dangerous Grounds (ODP Shipboard Scientific Party 2000), we infer ages of 10.5 and 5.5 Ma, respectively. Seismic characteristics and lithology of carbonate platforms and reefs Shallow water carbonates and reefs have been reported in the southern margin of the South China Sea, including the Dangerous Grounds, the Reed Bank, and the north-western Palawan offshore (Schlueter et al 1996;Yao et al 2012;Steuer et al 2013). In the seismic profiles this stratigraphic sequence, coeval with the drifting episode (32-17 Ma), is the most prominent one.…”

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Oligocene–Miocene carbonates in the Reed Bank area, South China Sea, and their tectono-sedimentary evolution

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Mar Geophys Res

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We have analyzed two recently acquired multichannel seismic profiles across the Reed Bank area, South China Sea. A detailed seismic interpretation coupled with drilling data has proved the occurrence of a wide carbonate platform, developed between the Late Oligocene and the Early Miocene (32-20 Ma). The top of these carbonates is an important regional unconformity, corresponding to a strong and continuous seismic reflector. An age of about 20 Ma is inferred for this reflector, acting as a regional unconformity marking the cessation of seafloor spreading with an erosional/non-depositional hiatus, spanning 3 or 4 m.y. The time interval during which the carbonate platforms formed is concurrent with the opening of the South China Sea. The reconstruction of the tectonic subsidence in this area has shown a decrease in rate of subsidence during the drifting stage (32-17 Ma), indicating that the whole Reed Bank area was in a tectonically stable and shallow water environment for more than 10 m.y., favoring the development of shallow water carbonates. With a sharply increased subsidence rate after the end of spreading (17 Ma) and a continuously increased sea level, the carbonate platforms were drowned and died, except some structural highs with reef buildups, where the carbonate sedimentation continued to Middle Miocene. We suggest that delayed tectonic subsidence in Reed Bank area might have been related to a secondary mantle convection under the rift lasting more than about 10 m.y.

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Oligocene–Miocene carbonates in the Reed Bank area, South China Sea, and their tectono-sedimentary evolution

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“…2), including the seismic profiles in the oceanic basin (Li et al 2012a; and the southern margin (Ding and Li 2011;Yao et al 2012;Lü et al 2013;Franke 2013;Song and Li 2015). To interpret our time migrated profiles 'OBS973-3' and 'OBS973-1', we performed the seismic sequence stratigraphy analysis using the GeoFrame package (Schlumberger) to categorize the seismic strata of Cenozoic stratigraphy into five major tectonostratigraphic units.…”

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The role of rifting in the development of the continental margins of the southwest subbasin, South China Sea: Insights from an OBS experiment

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Seismic stratigraphy of the central South China Sea basin and implications for neotectonics

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Coring/logging data and physical property measurements from International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 349 are integrated with, and correlated to, reflection seismic data to map seismic sequence boundaries and facies of the central basin and neighboring regions of the South China Sea. First-order sequence boundaries are interpreted, which are Oligocene/Miocene, middle Miocene/late Miocene, Miocene/Pliocene, and Pliocene/Pleistocene boundaries. A characteristic early Pleistocene strong reflector is also identified, which marks the top of extensive carbonate-rich deposition in the southern East and Southwest Subbasins. The fossil spreading ridge and the boundary between the East and Southwest Subbasins acted as major sedimentary barriers, across which seismic facies changes sharply and cannot be easily correlated. The sharp seismic facies change along the Miocene-Pliocene boundary indicates that a dramatic regional tectonostratigraphic event occurred at about 5 Ma, coeval with the onsets of uplift of Taiwan and accelerated subsidence and transgression in the northern margin. The depocenter or the area of the highest sedimentation rate switched from the northern East Subbasin during the Miocene to the Southwest Subbasin and the area close to the fossil ridge in the southern East Subbasin in the Pleistocene. The most active faulting and vertical uplifting now occur in the southern East Subbasin, caused most likely by the active and fastest subduction/obduction in the southern segment of the Manila Trench and the collision between the northeast Palawan and the Luzon arc. Timing of magmatic intrusions and seamounts constrained by seismic stratigraphy in the central basin varies and does not show temporal pulsing in their activities.LI ET AL.

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Characteristics and evolution of Cenozoic sediments in the Liyue Basin, SE South China Sea

Cited by 45 publications

References 16 publications

Oligocene–Miocene carbonates in the Reed Bank area, South China Sea, and their tectono-sedimentary evolution

Oligocene–Miocene carbonates in the Reed Bank area, South China Sea, and their tectono-sedimentary evolution

The role of rifting in the development of the continental margins of the southwest subbasin, South China Sea: Insights from an OBS experiment

Seismic stratigraphy of the central South China Sea basin and implications for neotectonics

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