Cenozoic post-rift unconformity and the accelerated subsidence events of the Jiyang Depression, Bohai Bay Basin and preliminary analyses on their original mechanism

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 455-464

  Guo, Xing Wei ^a,b   Shi, Xiao Bin ^a   Qiu, Xue Lin ^a   Wu, Zhi Ping ^c   Yang, Xiao Qiu ^a,b  

^a SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

Accelerated subsidence; Bohai Bay Basin; Flexural backstripping; Flexural cantilever model; Jiyang Depression; Numerical modeling; Post rift unconformity

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; CENOZOIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUSTAL THINNING; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; METASOMATISM; RIFTING; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCONFORMITY; UPLIFT;

ASIA; BOHAI BAY; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIYANG DEPRESSION; SHANDONG;

EID: 34250777033     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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