Geology of China
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We examined an International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) drilling core from Site U1501, located on the distal margin of the northern South China Sea (SCS) basin to unravel the sediment provenance evolution in the Paleogene and the... more
Reconstructing the Plio-Pleistocene sedimentary history of the Yellow Sea, is important for understanding the long-term influence of the Yellow River (Huanghe) and/or Yangtze River (Changjiang) on the Asian marginal seas and to further... more
We calculated the sedimentary budget of the Northwest Sub-basin (NWSB), South China Sea for different geological times based on interpretations of four multichannel seismic profiles across the basin with constraints from International... more
Subduction polarity reversal events following arc–continent, arc–arc or continent–continent collisions have been well-documented fromCenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic orogens, but not fromthe Archean.We here document a Neoarchean... more
Some changes in the topography of eastern China since Late Jurassic times cannot be well explained by lithospheric deformation. Here we analyze global mantle flow models to investigate how mantle-driven long-wavelength topography may have... more
摘要根据主要元素组成, 将所研究的22 个广东省燕山期花岗岩分为强过铝花岗岩和弱过铝花岗岩两类, 后者又区分出分异和未分异两种. 它们总体具有较为相似的微量元素和稀土元素组成, 即都是以大离子元素明显富集, Ba, Sr, Nb, Ta, P 与Ti 呈负异常, Eu 亏损为特征, 但分异弱过铝花岗岩(包括禾洞, 大埔, 荷泗, 白浆岩体) 的Ba, Ti 呈负异常和Eu 亏损更为明显. 强过铝和弱过铝花岗岩的Nd 同位素组成区别明显: 象头山等6... more
The Cenozoic terrestrial, intermontane Qaidam Basin on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau contains N 12 km of sedimentary rocks that potentially document the accommodation of India-Asia convergence and the growth of the plateau.... more
The formation of the Pamir salient and the Tashkorgan-Yarkand River is highly debated with the ages ranging from pre-Cenozoic to late Miocene. One approach to resolve these issues is to draw support from the sedimentary record in the... more
Hot, thick continental crust is susceptible to ductile flow within the middle and lower crust where quartz controls mechanical behavior. Reconstruction of subsidence in several sedimentary basins around the South China Sea, most notably... more
The First Bend on the Yangtze River, the point where the river ceases flowing towards the south and heads towards the NE has been one of the most strongly debated geomorphic features in Asia, because it holds the key to understanding the... more
Rifted continental lithosphere subsides as a consequence of combined crustal thinning and mantle lithosphere cooling yet basins on some continental margins experience anomalous subsidence events that postdate active extension. Deep basins... more
The late Quaternary paleoceanography and paleoenvironment in the Okinawa Trough, East China Sea, have been well reconstructed over the last decade, while in contrast the provenance of terrigenous sediments that have accumulated there... more
We here reconstruct the past change of the East Asian monsoon since 20 Ma using samples from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1146 in the northern South China Sea based on a multi-proxy approach including a monomineralic quartz isolation... more
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The coincidence of orogenic belts containing zones of high pressure metamorphism, ophiolites and deepwater sediments with faunal province boundaries leads to the postulation of several sutural zones within Asia. About nine blocks are... more
The Yangtze River dominates the drainage of eastern Asia, yet the processes that control erosion within the basin are obscure, making the interpretation of the detritus record difficult. In this study we used U-Pb dating of zircon grains... more
Current models of drainage evolution suggest that the non-dendritic patterns seen in rivers in SE Asia reflect progressive capture of headwaters away from the Red River during and as a result of surface uplift of Eastern Asia. Mass... more
The underlying cause of Indosinian thermotectonism remains unclear, in part because the term has also been adopted to explain Triassic orogenesis across southern China. This paper puts forward the case that use of the term Indosinian... more
Meso-and Neoproterozoic mafic-ultramafic rocks from northern Guangxi show mainly calc-alkaline features. The mafic rocks have (Nb/La) pm 1)= 0.13~ 0.51,(Th/La) pm= 0.85~ 3.3, Ti/Ti* 2)= 0.29~ 0.79 and show negative Nb and Ti anomalies in... more
As the world's second largest sand sea and one of the most important dust sources to the global aerosol system, the formation of the Taklimakan Desert marks a major environmental event in central Asia during the Cenozoic. Determining... more
Current models of drainage evolution suggest that the non-dendritic patterns seen in rivers in SE Asia reflect progressive capture of headwaters away from the Red River during and as a result of surface uplift of Eastern Asia. Mass... more
Current models of drainage evolution suggest that the non-dendritic patterns seen in rivers in SE Asia reflect progressive capture of headwaters away from the Red River during and as a result of surface uplift of Eastern Asia. Mass... more
Current models of drainage evolution suggest that the non-dendritic patterns seen in rivers in SE Asia reflect progressive capture of headwaters away from the Red River during and as a result of surface uplift of Eastern Asia. Mass... more
Current models of drainage evolution suggest that the non-dendritic patterns seen in rivers in SE Asia reflect progressive capture of headwaters away from the Red River during and as a result of surface uplift of Eastern Asia. Mass... more