Provenance analysis of the Cretaceous Gyeongsang Basin, SE Korea: A synthesis and tectonic implications for active continental margin in East Asia

YI Lee, JI Lee, YS Choi - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
In the middle to late Mesozoic period, the Korean Peninsula was in an active continental
margin with an accretionary complex developed in the direction of trench to the southeast …

[HTML][HTML] Tectonic evolution of the Korean Peninsula: A new paradigm for critical building blocks of East Asia

TYS Park, Y Oh, M Lee, T Kim - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Korean Peninsula occupies a critical part of East Asia, and thus understanding
its tectonic development has a significant impact on comprehending the crustal evolution of …

[HTML][HTML] Neotectonic transpressional intraplate deformation in eastern Eurasia: Insights from active fault systems in the southeastern Korean Peninsula

N Kim, SI Park, CS Cho, Y Cheon, AL Peace - Geoscience Frontiers, 2023 - Elsevier
Transpression occurs in response to oblique convergence across a deformation zone in
intraplate regions and plate boundaries. The Korean Peninsula is located at an intraplate …

Tectonomagmatic evolution of a Jurassic Cordilleran flare-up along the Korean Peninsula: Geochronological and geochemical constraints from granitoid rocks

AC Cheong, HJ Jo - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
This study used new and published U-Pb geochronological, chemical, and Sr-Nd-Hf-O
isotopic data (n> 2500) from Jurassic granite-granodiorite-diorite-monzonite-gabbro plutons …

A new titanopteran Magnatitan jongheoni n. gen. n. sp. from southwestern Korean Peninsula

TYS Park, DY Kim, GS Nam, M Lee - Journal of Paleontology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Titanopterans are spectacular, giant, predatory insects mainly known from the Triassic, but
they are known from a few localities in Central Asia (including European Russia) and …

Middle Jurassic orogeny in the northern North China block

GL Wu, QR Meng, RX Zhu, LG Fan, K Meng, HH Wei… - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
Multiple shortening took place during the Mesozoic in the periphery of the North China block
(NCB), a major tectonic grain of East Asia, but no consensus exists as to the timing, intensity …

[HTML][HTML] Lithospheric thinning and ignition of a Cordilleran magmatic flare-up: Geochemical and O-Hf isotopic constraints from Cretaceous plutons in southern Korea

AC Cheong, MJ Jung, HJ Jo, J Kim, S Lee… - Geoscience Frontiers, 2023 - Elsevier
Northeast Asian continental margins contain the products of magma emplacement driven by
prolonged subduction of the (paleo-) Pacific plate. As observed in many Cordilleran arcs …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of fracture networks and connectivity during fault–bend folding: Insights from the Sinon Anticline in the southwestern Hongseong–Imjingang Belt …

I Kim, SI Park, S Kwon, HJ Lee - Journal of Structural Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Crustal shortening in an elastico-frictional regime is mainly accommodated by contractional
fault–fold systems with fracture networks. According to recent research, fracture networks in …

Petrogenesis of coeval shoshonitic and high-K calc-alkaline igneous suites in the Eopyeong granitoids, Taebaeksan Basin, South Korea: Lithospheric thinning-related …

S Im, JW Park, J Kim, SG Choi, MJ Lee - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Early Cretaceous was the initial period of prolonged Cretaceous-Tertiary
magmatic episode in the Korean Peninsula, during which a tectonic transition from …

The age and geochemistry of the mid-Cretaceous volcanic rocks in the Jinan Basin: Implications for the mid-Cretaceous tectonic environments of the Korean …

SH Lee, CW Oh, JW Park - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
Most of the mid to late Cretaceous igneous rocks in the southeastern margin of the Northeast
Asian continent are interpreted to be formed due to upwelling of asthenospheric mantle …