Stretching of the Earth's upper crust is commonly accommodated by normal faulting, fault- related folding and/or fracturing such as veins and joints. However, an increasing number of …
Y Qin, C Liu, G Peng, L Huang, C Liang, H Li… - Geological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Fluid diapirs are widespread in the northern South China Sea (SCS), are significant indicators of the existence and distribution of hydrocarbons and natural gas hydrates and …
Y Xu, J Ren - Journal of Structural Geology, 2025 - Elsevier
Preexisting faults as the products of previous tectonic events are common in the passive continental margins. Recent studies have proposed the existence and significance of the …
Y Xu, J Ren, Y Zhao, J Zheng, C Lei, D Zhu - Tectonics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Core complex type structures are common in continental margins. Recent studies have proposed exhumation of deeper crustal and mantle levels during extension of the …
G Lymer, C Childs, J Walsh - Basin Research, 2023 - earthdoc.org
Low‐angle detachments are fundamental crustal structures found in many extensional systems and plate tectonic boundaries, including onshore extensional basins, rifted margins …
S Hao, L Mei, J Zheng, CR Ranero - Tectonics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The 2D rifting modes interpreted in traditional “magma‐poor” and “magma‐rich” margins cannot explain the crustal structure and inferred rifting processes in the northern South …
W Guan, L Huang, C Liu, G Peng, H Li, C Liang… - Basin …, 2024 - earthdoc.org
Abstract The northern South China Sea (SCS) margin evolved from the Mesozoic convergent to Cenozoic divergent continental margin, and thus, it developed on a …