Cenozoic tectonic jumping and implications for hydrocarbon accumulation in basins in the East Asia Continental Margin |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, Jeju National University, Jeju 690-756, South Korea;2. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Research Institute of Natural Science, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, South Korea;3. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, South Korea;1. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources and School of Geosciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China;2. Seismological Laboratory and Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States |
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| Abstract: | Tectonic migration is a common geological process of basin formation and evolution. However, little is known about tectonic migration in the western Pacific margins. This paper focuses on the representative Cenozoic basins of East China and its surrounding seas in the western Pacific domain to discuss the phenomenon of tectonic jumping in Cenozoic basins, based on structural data from the Bohai Bay Basin, the South Yellow Sea Basin, the East China Sea Shelf Basin, and the South China Sea Continental Shelf Basin. The western Pacific active continental margin is the eastern margin of a global convergent system involving the Eurasian Plate, the Pacific Plate, and the Indian Plate. Under the combined effects of the India-Eurasia collision and retrogressive or roll-back subduction of the Pacific Plate, the western Pacific active continental margin had a wide basin-arc-trench system which migrated or ‘jumped’ eastward and further oceanward. This migration and jumping is characterized by progressive eastward younging of faulting, sedimentation, and subsidence within the basins. Owing to the tectonic migration, the geological conditions associated with hydrocarbon and gashydrate accumulation in the Cenozoic basins of East China and its adjacent seas also become progressively younger from west to east, showing eastward younging in the generation time of reservoirs, seals, traps, accumulations and preservation of hydrocarbon and gashydrate. Such a spatio-temporal distribution of Cenozoic hydrocarbon and gashydrate is significant for the oil, gas and gashydrate exploration in the East Asian Continental Margin. Finally, this study discusses the mechanism of Cenozoic intrabasinal and interbasinal tectonic migration in terms of interplate, intraplate and underplating processes. The migration or jumping regimes of three separate or interrelated events: (1) tectonism-magmatism, (2) basin formation, and (3) hydrocarbon-gashydrate accumulation are the combined effects of the Late Mesozoic extrusion tectonics, the Cenozoic NW-directed crustal extension, and the regional far-field eastward flow of the western asthenosphere due to the India-Eurasia plate collision, accompanied by eastward jumping and roll-back of subduction zones of the Pacific Plate. |
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| Keywords: | East Asia Tectonic migration Plate margin Intraplate Interplate Deep-seated tectonic processes Hydrocarbon accumulation |
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