Seismic stratigraphy and tectonic structure from a composite multi-channel seismic profile across the entire Dangerous Grounds, South China Sea

Tectonophysics

Volumn 582, Issue , 2013, Pages 162-176

  Ding, Weiwei ^a   Franke, Dieter ^b   Li, Jiabiao ^a   Steuer, Stephan ^b  

^a Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^b Federal Institute for Geoscience and Natural Resource (BGR)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dangerous Grounds; Deformation; Multichannel seismic; Seismic stratigraphy; South China Sea; Stretching factors

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE PLATFORMS; CONTINENT-OCEAN TRANSITION; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; CRUSTAL STRETCHING; GRAVITY INVERSIONS; INITIAL STAGES; MIOCENE; MOHO DEPTH; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; OLIGOCENE; RIFT SYSTEMS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SECOND PHASE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SOUTH CHINA SEA; STUDY AREAS; SUBBASINS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

DEFORMATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUST-MANTLE BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRABEN; MOHO; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; UNCONFORMITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84870799885     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.09.026     Document Type: Article

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