Submarine volcanism in the southern margin of the South China Sea

Zhang, Chenglong; Xia, Shaohong; Fan, Chun‐An; Cao, Jianyu

doi:10.1007/s00343-022-2088-z

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“…The northern and southern margins as well as the oceanic basin in between is formed by rifting and spreading during Cenozoic. The crustal structure varies greatly both in the north and in the south margin (Nansha Block) (Zhang et al, 2023b), where lots of latest volcanism and hot springs have been discovered (Zhang et al, 2023a;Liu et al, 2023b). Due to the simultaneous extrusion of the Indochina block at the similar time, a large shear zone named Red River-East Vietnam fault separate the western margin of the SCS into two types, for example the Zengmu Basin located above the shear zone is formed by transtension, which is obviously different from Beikang Basin located in the southern SCS margin (Han et al, 2023).…”

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Geological environment in the South China Sea

2023

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The South China Sea (SCS), situated in southern China, at the junction of the Pacific Plate, the Eurasian Plate, and the Indian Ocean Plate, is a northeast-southwest trending semi-enclosed sea. It spans an area of approximately 3.5 million square kilometers and has an average water depth of about 1 200 m, its deepest point reaching 5 559 m. In 2021, a scientific expedition (called as U1 voyage) in the South China Sea was organized by the Innovation Research Team of Guangdong Special Key Program from March to April, this marks the first comprehensive scientific research voyage to the southern Uboundary corridor. Consisting of a total of 30 papers, this special issue is to share a portion of the research findings from this scientific expedition U1 voyage, covering six aspects: 1) characteristics of the marine ecosystem in the SCS and its response to marine dynamic processes; 2) multi-scale marine dynamic processes, sea-air interactions, and forecasting techniques in the SCS; 3) geomorphology and geological structure; 4) sedimentary processes and resource potential in the SCS; 5) geostrategy, rights and interests maintenance and strategic countermeasures in the SCS; 6) marine scientific instruments. By integrating the scientific research with the study of history, jurisprudence and international strategies, this issue presents new insights into the formation history and scope evolution of the SCS, and it also seeks to establish a new scientific framework based on the marine governance and development of the SCS.

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