Continent-Ocean Interactions Within East Asian Marginal Seas

Continent-Ocean Interactions Within East Asian Marginal Seas......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
PREFACE......Page 7
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 10
2.1. A Center of Material, Energy, and Genetic Flux......Page 11
2.2. A Changing System of Land-Sea Interactions......Page 13
3.1. Topographic Reversal in China......Page 14
3.2. Pre-Neogene Asia......Page 16
3.4. Reorganization of the Hydrological Network......Page 17
4.1. Development of the Arctic Ice-Sheet......Page 19
4.2. Development of the Asian Monsoon System......Page 20
5.1. Formation of the Marginal Seas......Page 22
5.2. Western Boundary Currents in the Marginal Seas......Page 23
5.3. Different Modes of Sea-Land Interactions......Page 24
6. CONCLUSIONS......Page 26
REFERENCES......Page 28
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 32
2. RELIANCE ON THE NAIP POLES......Page 33
4. RECENTLY PUBLISHED DATA......Page 35
5. NEW LATE PALEOCENE-EARLY EOCENE55-52 MA POLE FOR EURASIA......Page 37
7. EARLY PALEOGENE RECONSTRUCTION......Page 38
9. CONSEQUENCES OF A LATE, RATHER THAN EARLY, INDIA-ASIA COLLISION......Page 40
APPENDIX......Page 41
REFERENCES......Page 42
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 45
2. METHODOLOGY......Page 47
3. CONVERGENCE HISTORY OF THE INDIAN OCEAN MARGIN OF SOUTHEAST ASIA SINCE160 MA......Page 50
4. OCEANIC GATEWAY EVOLUTION......Page 58
REFERENCES......Page 60
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 63
2. SUNDALAND......Page 64
3. BASIN SETTING......Page 65
4. BASIN HISTORIES......Page 73
5. ORIGIN OF CENOZOIC BASINS OF SUNDALAND......Page 82
6. CONCLUSIONS......Page 85
REFERENCES......Page 87
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 94
2. GEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK AND STRUCTUR EOF JAPANESE AND SAKHALIN ISLANDS......Page 95
3. PLATE MOTIONS AND THE DRIVING FORCE FOR OPENING OF THE BASINS......Page 100
4. ROTATION OF JAPANESE ISLANDS BASED ON PALEOMAGNETIC MEASUREMENTS......Page 102
5. SUBDUCTION BENEATH JAPAN AND SAKHALIN PRIOR TO BASIN OPENING......Page 103
6. RECONSTRUCTION OF THE JAPANESE AND SAKHALIN ISLANDS SINCE THE MIDDLE TERTIARY......Page 105
7. DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY......Page 110
REFERENCES......Page 111
Experimental Constraints on Cenozoic Development ofYing-Qiong Basin in NW South China Sea......Page 116
1. GEOLOGICAL SETTING OF THE YINGGEHAI AND QIONGDONGNAN BASINS......Page 117
2. THE ANALOGUE MODEL......Page 120
3. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS......Page 122
4. DISCUSSION......Page 124
5. CONCLUSIONS......Page 125
REFERENCES......Page 126
2. PREVIOUS STUDIES......Page 128
4. INTERPRETATION......Page 129
5. CONCLUSIONS......Page 131
REFERENCES......Page 132
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 133
2. PRE-COLLISIONAL GEOLOGY: RYUKYU SUBDUCTION ZONE AND ASSOCIATED BACKARC BASINS......Page 134
3. THE UPLIFT OF TAIWAN......Page 147
4. CONCLUSIONS......Page 160
REFERENCES......Page 161
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 165
3. DATA......Page 167
4. UNDER-FILLED BASIN......Page 168
5. INITIAL COLLISION......Page 169
6. CRATONWARD MIGRATION OF THE ACTIVE TAIWAN MARGIN......Page 172
7. UNDER-FILLED BASIN EVOLUTION......Page 174
8. BASIN FILLING......Page 175
10. DISCUSSION......Page 176
REFERENCES......Page 177
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 180
2.1. Geologic Setting......Page 181
3. DATA AND METHODS......Page 182
4.1. Flat Echoes Class 1......Page 183
4.2. Mound Echoes Class 2......Page 186
5.1. Unit 1......Page 188
5.4. Lithofacies Correlation and 14C Ages......Page 189
6.1. Stage 1 lowstand to early transgressive stage......Page 191
6.2. Stage 2 transgressive stage......Page 192
7. CONCLUSIONS......Page 194
REFERENCES......Page 195
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 197
2. GEOLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SETTINGS......Page 198
4. NEARSHORE MUD BELT......Page 200
5. SAND RIDGES CORE YSDP 104......Page 202
6. DISCUSSION......Page 206
REFERENCES......Page 207
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 209
2. GEOLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SETTING......Page 211
4. SEDIMENTARY FACIES AND STRATIGRAPHY OF CORE SEDIMENTS......Page 214
6. DISTRIBUTION OF ECHO TYPES AND LITHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS......Page 219
7. DISCUSSION......Page 232
REFERENCES......Page 235
INTRODUCTION......Page 238
AVAILABLE DATA AND METHODS......Page 239
CENOZOIC TECTONIC HISTORY AND BASIN EVOLUTION ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN SCS......Page 241
NEOGENE SEDIMENT SUPPLY AND DISPERSA LPATTERNS ACROSS THE SOUTHWESTERN SCS......Page 242
NEOGENE CHANNEL FEATURES ACROSS TH ESOUTHWESTERN SCS......Page 246
DISCUSSION......Page 250
REFERENCES......Page 254
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 258
2.1. Tibetan Uplift......Page 259
3. THE EROSIONAL RECORD OF TIBETAN UPLIFT......Page 260
4. THE EAST ASIAN MARGINAL SEAS......Page 261
4.1. Basin Analysis......Page 262
5.2. Gulf of Thailand......Page 263
5.3. Nam Con Son Basin......Page 265
5.4. Gulf of Tonkin......Page 266
5.6. East China......Page 269
5.7. Synthesis......Page 270
6. PROVENANCE......Page 271
6.1. Nd Isotopes......Page 272
6.2. Pb Isotopes......Page 274
7. DISCUSSION......Page 276
7.1. Eocene-Oligocene......Page 277
7.3. Late Miocene......Page 278
REFERENCES......Page 280
1. INTRODUCTION......Page 286
2. EAST ASIAN MONSOON AND ITS ORBITAL AND SUBORBITAL-SCALE VARIABILITY......Page 287
3. ONSET AND EVOLUTION OF ORBITAL- TO SUBORBITAL-SCALE VARIABILITY IN THE EAST ASIAN MONSOON......Page 288
4. OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE JAPAN SEA......Page 289
5. IMPACT OF THE EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON ON THE OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE JAPAN SEA......Page 290
6. IMPACT OF THE EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON ON THE OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE JAPAN SEA......Page 291
7. LATE QUATERNARY PALEOCEANOGRAPHY OF THE JAPAN SEA AND LINKAGE WITH THE EAST ASIAN MONSOON......Page 292
8. PLIO-PLEISTOCENE PALEOCEANOGRAPHY OFTHE JAPAN SEA; IMPLICATIONS FOR EAST ASIAN MONSOON EVOLUTION......Page 294
9. EOLIAN DUST RECORD IN JAPAN SEA SEDIMENTS......Page 295
11. EVOLUTION OF THE MILLENNIAL-SCALE VARIABILITY OF THE ASIAN MONSOON......Page 297
13. SUMMARY......Page 298
REFERENCES......Page 299
INTRODUCTION......Page 302
THE HOLOCENE AND LATE PLEISTOCENE LAST450 KY: GLACIAL/INTERGLACIAL AND SHORTTERM VARIABILITY......Page 304
THE PLIOCENE-LATE MIDDLE MIOCENE RESTRICTION 3-12 MA......Page 313
MID-MIOCENE EVENTS 17-12 MA: SEALEVEL AND PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC PERTURBATIONS......Page 315
EARLY MIOCENE INITIAL CLOSURE  2 5 - 1 7 MA......Page 316
CONCLUSIONS......Page 318
REFERENCES......Page 319
INTRODUCTION......Page 324
METHODS......Page 326
RESULTS......Page 328
DISCUSSION......Page 330
CONCLUSIONS......Page 337
REFERENCES......Page 338