Ocean-continent transition architecture and breakup mechanism at the mid-northern South China Sea

C Zhang, Z Sun, G Manatschal, X Pang, S Li… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Ocean-Continent Transition (OCT) located between the edge of the continental and
unequivocal oceanic crusts is an ideal laboratory to understand one of the most fundamental …

Cenozoic source-to-sink driven by tectono-geomorphic evolution: A systematic detrital zircon U-Pb analysis in the central northern South China Sea

G Wang, S Li, Y Suo, G Peng, P Wang, H Cheng… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
To decipher the geomorphic and drainage evolution between Tibet and the South China
Sea (SCS), the Cenozoic source-to-sink evolution of the central northern SCS has always …

Regional structure and polyphased Cretaceous-Paleocene rift and basin development of the mid-Norwegian volcanic passive margin

D Zastrozhnov, L Gernigon, I Gogin, S Planke… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
The Møre and Vøring basins of the mid-Norwegian volcanic passive margin are
characterized by thick accumulations of Cretaceous to Paleocene sedimentary strata. They …

Cenozoic basement-involved rifting of the northern South China Sea margin

Y Suo, S Li, G Peng, X Du, J Zhou, P Wang, G Wang… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The northern South China Sea (SCS) margin developed on a thinning crust
comprising basement-involved structures inherited from the post-orogenic extension of the …

Paleogeothermal gradients across an inverted hyperextended rift system: Example of the Mauléon Fossil Rift (Western Pyrenees)

N Saspiturry, A Lahfid, T Baudin, L Guillou‐Frottier… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The fossil rift in the North Pyrenean Zone, which underwent high temperature‐low pressure
metamorphism and alkaline magmatism during Early Cretaceous hyperextension, was …

The tectono-magmatic and subsidence evolution during lithospheric breakup in a salt-rich rifted margin: Insights from a 3D seismic survey from southern Gabon

ME Epin, G Manatschal, F Sapin, MG Rowan - Marine and Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, we present an interpretation of a 3D depth-migrated dataset imaging the Ocean
Continent-Transition (OCT) of the southern Gabon margin. Located in an area where salt is …

Assessing thermal maturity through a multi-proxy approach: A case study from the Permian Faraghan Formation (Zagros Basin, Southwest Iran)

A Spina, S Cirilli, A Sorci, A Schito, G Clayton… - Geosciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study focuses on the thermal maturity of Permian deposits from the Zagros Basin,
Southwest Iran, employing both optical methods (Thermal Alteration Index, Palynomorph …

The role of inheritance in forming rifts and rifted margins and building collisional orogens: a Biscay-Pyrenean perspective

G Manatschal, P Chenin… - BSGF-Earth …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A long-standing challenge in tectonics is to evaluate the role of inheritance and define the
initial conditions of a geodynamic system, which are prerequisites to understand and model …

Rifted margin with localized detachment and polyphase magmatism: A new model of the northern South China Sea

S Hao, L Mei, X Pang, L Gernigon, D Paton… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Continental passive margins are commonly classified into volcanic (or magma-rich) and non-
volcanic (or magma-poor) types based on the magmatic budget. It is difficult, however, to use …

Synrift and post-rift thermal evolution of rifted margins: a re-evaluation of classic models of extension

M Pérez-Gussinyé, Y Xin, T Cunha… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
The thermal evolution of continental rifted margins is key to understanding margin
subsidence and hydrocarbon prospectivity. Observed heat-flow values, however, do not …