The Cretaceous climax of compression in Eastern Asia: Age 87–89 Ma (late Turonian/Coniacian), Pacific cause, continental consequences

Geochemistry of siltstones of the Early Cretaceous Laiyang Group in Taolin area, Shandong Province, Eastern China: Implications for provenance, source weathering, palaeo‐environment, and tectonic setting

“…No matter ACM or CIA, they both relate to the oceanic plate subduction, as for this research, the Izanagi Plate subducted beneath Eurasian Plate until Late Cretaceous (Song, Stepashko, & Ren, ). Basins developing on active continental margin include trench, fore‐arc basin, intra‐arc basin, back‐arc basin, and pull‐apart basin related to strike‐slip fault.…”

Late Cretaceous tectonic switch from a Western Pacific‐ to an Andean‐Type continental margin evolution in East Asia, and a foreland basin development in NE China

“…The timing of the late Jurassic–early Cretaceous collisional events along the proto‐Japan continental margin that resulted in terrane accretion in East Asia (Charvet, ; Otsuki, ) is not consistent with the well‐constrained timing of the late Cretaceous contractional deformation in the EZ and CZ sedimentary basins. Intra‐Pacific Ocean plate reorganisations in the early Late Cretaceous are interpreted to have caused accelerated seafloor spreading rates, which in turn resulted in faster subduction rates and corresponding contractional deformation in the Asian continental upper plate (Song et al., ). The inferred timing of the climax of this contractional deformation event (Song et al., ) is nearly 15–20 Ma before the major episode of basin inversion in the Songliao Basin.…”

“…The tectonic evolution of these basins occurred in two stages: extensional basin and accommodation-space development in the early Cretaceous, followed by contractional deformation and basin inversion in the late Cretaceous (eg, Feng et al, 2010;Ren et al, 2002;Wang et al, 2016;Zhang, Chen, et al, 2012). Recent studies of the Songliao and Sanjiang basins have shown that their inversion began much earlier than previously thought and that this inversion played an important role in depocentre development and migration and petroleum accumulation within the basins (eg, Feng, Zhang, & Fu, 2012;Song, Ren, Stepashko, & Li, 2014;Song, Stepashko, & Ren, 2015;Wang et al, 2016;Zhang, Chen, et al, 2015;Zhao, Wang, Wang, & Feng, 2013). Fewer studies have concentrated so far on the mode, nature and kinematics of this basin inversion and the associated contractional deformation, in comparison to numerous investigations of the late Jurassic-early Cretaceous extensional tectonics of the sedimentary basins in NE China.…”

Large‐scale morphotectonics of the ocean‐continent transition zone between the Western Pacific Ocean and the East Asian Continent: a link of deep process to the Earth' s surface system

“…In the Mesozoic, recent apatite fission track (AFT) and zircon fission track (ZFT) data reveal that the WSB underwent two uplift or subsidence events. The first event took place in the surroundings of the Songliao Basin between about 100 Ma and 87 Ma, and in the east of the BBB between 92 Ma to 86 Ma (Song et al, ); the second event was defined by Cao et al () for the west of the BBB approximately between 60–40 Ma and 25 Ma, which suggests that the propagation of exhumation dynamics migrated southwards.…”

“…Based on the analysis of the AFT data, the research of Song et al () showed that the Songliao Basin was subjected to the direct influence of the Pacific subduction‐induced compression with a peak period from 89 Ma to 87 Ma, when there is an uplift and cooling of granite intrusions around the Songliao Basin in 99–91 Ma, in the Xiaoxing'an Range and Daxing'an mountains in the period of 100–89 Ma and 89–87 Ma, respectively. The exhumation and cooling of the granites east of the BBB occurred at about the same time as that in the Daxing'an Mountains.…”