“…Scholars from universities, colleges, institutes, and oil industries have conducted numerous related studies on tectonics, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, and reservoir mechanism and achieved fruitful and effective results (D. H. Jia et al, 2007, 2010; D. J. Li et al, 2007; Q. Li et al, 2011; Lin et al, 2015; Qi et al, 1994, 2010; Qi & Yang, 2010; Z. Q. Song et al, 2017; W. Wu et al, 2011, 2012; S. Q. Xia, Liu, et al, 2018; S. Q. Xia, Lin, et al, 2018; S. Q. Xia, Lin, Du, Jia, et al, 2020; S. Q. Xia et al, 2021, 2022; S. Q. Xia, Lin, Du, Li, et al, 2020; Xu, 2013; Xu et al, 2005, 2008; Y. X. Yu et al, 2011, 2013; F. S. Yu & Koyi, 2016; Zhou et al, 2010, 2012; X. M. Zhu et al, 2008; W. L. Zhu et al, 2015). However, few studies have been carried out regarding fault activity and subsidence history within Liaodong Bay.…”