Structural evolution of the southwestern margin of the Ulleung Basin, East Sea (Japan Sea) and tectonic implications

Lee, Gwang H.; Yoon, Young-Ho; Nam, Byong H.; Lim, Hee-Chang; Kim, Young‐Seog; Kim, Han J.; Lee, Keumsuk

doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.01.015

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“…The cessation of back‐arc opening of the Japan Sea is considered to be at ~15 Ma (e.g., Jolivet et al, ; Martin, ; Van Horne et al, ). In the southwestern Japan Sea, this is marked by basin inversion at ~15.5 Mathat resulted from NW‐SE compression, indicated by broad anticlines and thrust faults along the southern margin of the Tsushima/Ulleung Basin (Kim et al, ; Lee et al, , ; Lee & Kim, ). Tectonic inversion in the eastern part of the Japan Sea commenced in Pliocene times (~3.5 Ma), after a ~10 Myr transitional phase with a nearly neutral stress regime (Sato, ).…”

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Reconstruction of Subduction and Back‐Arc Spreading in the NW Pacific and Aleutian Basin: Clues to Causes of Cretaceous and Eocene Plate Reorganizations

2019

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The Eocene (~50–45 Ma) major absolute plate motion change of the Pacific plate forming the Hawaii‐Emperor bend is thought to result from inception of Pacific plate subduction along one of its modern western trenches. Subduction is suggested to have started either spontaneously, or result from subduction of the Izanagi‐Pacific mid‐ocean ridge, or from subduction polarity reversal after collision of the Olyutorsky arc that was built on the Pacific plate with NE Asia. Here we provide a detailed plate‐kinematic reconstruction of back‐arc basins and accreted terranes in the northwest Pacific region, from Japan to the Bering Sea, since the Late Cretaceous. We present a new tectonic reconstruction of the intraoceanic Olyutorsky and Kronotsky arcs, which formed above two adjacent, oppositely dipping subduction zones at ~85 Ma within the north Pacific region, during another Pacific‐wide plate reorganization. We use our reconstruction to explain the formation of the submarine Shirshov and Bowers Ridges and show that if marine magnetic anomalies reported from the Aleutian Basin represent magnetic polarity reversals, its crust most likely formed in an ~85‐ to 60‐Ma back‐arc basin behind the Olyutorsky arc. The Olyutorsky arc was then separated from the Pacific plate by a spreading ridge, so that the ~55‐ to 50‐Ma subduction polarity reversal that followed upon Olyutorsky‐NE Asia collision initiated subduction of a plate that was not the Pacific. Hence, this polarity reversal may not be a straightforward driver of the Eocene Pacific plate motion change, whose causes remain enigmatic.

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“…Tectonics southern margin of the Tsushima/Ulleung Basin Lee et al, 2001Lee et al, , 2011Lee & Kim, 2002). Tectonic inversion in the eastern part of the Japan Sea commenced in Pliocene times (~3.5 Ma), after ã 10 Myr transitional phase with a nearly neutral stress regime (Sato, 1994).…”

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Reconstruction of Subduction and Back‐Arc Spreading in the NW Pacific and Aleutian Basin: Clues to Causes of Cretaceous and Eocene Plate Reorganizations

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“…Then, faults were restored using the Inclined-Shear algorithm, which assumes that the hanging wall deforms by simple shear and the footwall remains undeformed through extension (White et al, 1986). Next, the depth model was restored by merging the top surface and the paleo-depositional surface using the flexural-slip unfolding algorithm, which assumes concentric folds with constant bed thickness (Keetley and Hill, 2000;Lee et al, 2011;Cukur et al, 2011). After unfolding, the new top megasequence was back-stripped and the same procedure was repeated until the deepest sediment layer is left in the basin.…”

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Timing of trap formation and petroleum generation in the northern East China Sea Shelf Basin

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Marine and Petroleum Geology

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“…The first-stage slow subsidence occurred at 20-18 Ma (James and Ingle, 1992). Rates of uplift subsequently accelerated to 500-1500 m/Ma (James and Ingle, 1992) in the late Pliocene and Pleistocene times (2.0-0.7 Ma), resulting in widespread deformation of pre-Upper Pleistocene sedimentary sequences and the tectonic reorganization of the eastern, central and southern Japan Sea, creating the borderland-style topography now characterizing these areas (Lee et al, 2011) (Fig. This was accompanied by Middle Miocene rotation of southwest Japan and a second pulse of basaltic magmatism (Tamaki et al, 1990).…”

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“…In fact, the Cenozoic marginal basins of the NW Pacific that underwent extension, back-arc spreading and subsidence in the Cenozoic in a relatively short time, are now undergoing tectonic inversion, and are even at the thrust stage of tectonic destruction (Hutchison, 2004;TuZino and Murakami, 2008;Lee et al, 2011;Aurelio et al, 2014). In fact, the Cenozoic marginal basins of the NW Pacific that underwent extension, back-arc spreading and subsidence in the Cenozoic in a relatively short time, are now undergoing tectonic inversion, and are even at the thrust stage of tectonic destruction (Hutchison, 2004;TuZino and Murakami, 2008;Lee et al, 2011;Aurelio et al, 2014).…”

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Sequential patterns in Cenozoic marginal basins of the Northwest Pacific

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Geological Journal

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By using magnetic anomaly identifications, onshore and offshore exploratory wells, ODP drillings, isotopic dating and orthochronology results, this paper summarizes the tectonic event sequence (including extension, back‐arc spreading, subsidence, convergence/compressive deformation and thrusting) of the marginal basins of the NW Pacific and extracted sequence patterns of the marginal basins according to the tectonic event sequence from an array of oil company regional seismic lines and other geological data. Three important evolutionary stages of the Northwestern Pacific (NW Pacific) marginal sea basins are distinguished: from the Palaeocene to Eocene, from Oligocene to Middle Miocene and from the later Middle Miocene to the present day. Each stage corresponds to a rifting sequence (Palaeocene to Eocene), a drifting sequence (Oligocene to Middle Miocene) and a subsidence/convergence sequence (later Middle Miocene to the present day). The rifting sequence and drifting sequence developed sequentially in the South China Sea Basin, from Palaeocene to Eocene and from Oligocene to Middle Miocene, while in the Japan and Okhotsk Sea basins, an early stage rifting sequence was not developed in the Palaeocene to Eocene interval. However, the drifting and rifting sequence developed synchronously from the Oligocene to Middle Miocene. From the Later Miocene time, all the marginal basins of the Northwest Pacific basically stopped drifting and began to enter the subsidence (post‐drifting) stage. An arc‐continent collision from the south caused the formation of a convergence sequence in the southern margin of each marginal basin. The NW Pacific Plate collision with the Kuril–Kamchatka Arc led to the deformation of the subsidence sequence in the southern margin of the Kuril Sea Basin. The NW Pacific Plate convergence with the Japan Arc led to the formation of a convergence sequence in the southern margin of the Japan Sea Basin. The Borneo–Palawan Arc convergence with the Dangerous Grounds–Reed Bank Block in the South China Sea Basin from 15 Ma led to the formation of the convergence sequence in the southern margin of the South China Sea Basin. The degree of thrusting deformation of the convergent sequence increased gradually from north to south in the marginal basins of the Northwest Pacific. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Structural evolution of the southwestern margin of the Ulleung Basin, East Sea (Japan Sea) and tectonic implications

Cited by 81 publications

References 30 publications

Reconstruction of Subduction and Back‐Arc Spreading in the NW Pacific and Aleutian Basin: Clues to Causes of Cretaceous and Eocene Plate Reorganizations

Reconstruction of Subduction and Back‐Arc Spreading in the NW Pacific and Aleutian Basin: Clues to Causes of Cretaceous and Eocene Plate Reorganizations

Timing of trap formation and petroleum generation in the northern East China Sea Shelf Basin

Sequential patterns in Cenozoic marginal basins of the Northwest Pacific

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