• 责任者：Li Jiabiao (Key Laboratory of the Sub-Marine Geoscience ; State Oceanic Administration ; Hangzhou 310012 ; China)
• 刊名：Chinese Journal of Geophysics
• 出版年：2011
• 卷期：54(12)
• 关键词：大陆边缘 ; continental margins ; 地球动力学 ; geodynamics ; 南海 ; South China Sea
• 页码：p.2993-3003
• 图表：3 illus., 23 refs.
• 分类号：0300
• issnNo：ISSN0001-5733
• isbnNo：CN11-2074/P

Comprehensive geophysical survey has been deployed in the southern margin and southwest sub-basin of the South China Sea for the first time. The authors worked out the dynamics of the continental margin in South China Sea. Major conclusions are as follows: Two sea-floor spreading events occurred in Cenozoic. The origin and evolution of sediment basins on northern and southern continental margins are very distinct, and the hydrocarbon accumulations are distributed in a cirque with oil outside and gas inside. The authors believe that the hydrocarbon-bearing perspectives in southern continental marginal basins are superior to these northern continental marginal basins. In Mesozoic the northern and southern margin of the South China Sea were parts of the South China Continental Block, which was controlled by the Tethays and Pacific tectonic domains.