Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

South China Sea documents the transition from wide continental rift to continental break up

  • Hongdan Deng,
  • Jianye Ren,
  • Xiong Pang,
  • Patrice F. Rey,
  • Ken R. McClay,
  • Ian M. Watkinson,
  • Jingyun Zheng,
  • Pan Luo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18448-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The transition from wide continental rift to continental break-up remains enigmatic. Here, the authors show that northern margin of the South China Sea records the transition between wide continental rift to a highly extended continental margin, with strikingly similar structures and metamorphic core complexes to those described from the North American Cordillera and the Aegean.