Abstract The South China Sea, which is located to the southeast of Eurasian continent,
developed as the result of intra-continental rifting and seafloor spreading on the South …

The Indian-type mantle (ie, above the north hemisphere reference line on the plot of 208
Pb/204 Pb vs. 206 Pb/204 Pb) has been considered as a “Southern Hemisphere” …

Intraplate volcanism initiated shortly after the cessation of Cenozoic seafloor spreading in
the South China Sea (SCS) region, but the full extent of its influence on the Indochina block …

Cenozoic basalts with ages ranging from 28.5 to< 0.1 Ma are widely distributed in the
Indochina block, the South China Sea basin and the Leiqiong area in South China including …

The genesis of seamount chains along fossil spreading ridges reflects the mantle melting
dynamics of dying spreading center. The South China Sea developed a seamount chain …

As one of the microcontinents dispersed in the South China Sea (SCS), the Xisha
microcontinent lacks the petrological evidence of the Cenozoic magmatic activity and …

Mantle plumes are one of the most influential first-order tectonic systems on Earth, playing a
prominent role in controlling local magmatic activity and seismicity. Recent studies have …

Weizhou Island, located in the northwestern South China Sea (SCS), is the largest volcanic
island in China. Its eruption represents the most recent volcanic activity in and around the …

The seismic, drilling and logging data reveal that a large-scale igneous intrusion with a
width of 14 Km and a maximum thickness of 170 m intruded within the Paleogene …

This paper presents a model for the generation of hydrous-carbonated plumes (HCPs) in the
mantle transition zone (MTZ) linking (i) the Pacific-type convergent margins;(ii) melt …