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The study of the complex interactions between continents and oceans has become a leading area for 21st century earth cience. In Continent-Ocean Interactions within East Asian Marginal Seas, continent – ocean interactions in tectonics, arc-continent collision, sedimentology, and climatic volution within the East Asian Marginal Seas take precedence. Links between oceanic and continental climate, the sedimentology of coastal and shelf areas, and the links between deformation of continental and oceanic lithosphere are also discussed.
As an introduction to the science presented throughout Continent-Ocean Interactions within East Asian Marginal Seas, Wang discusses many of the possible interactions between the tectonic evolution of Asia and both regional and global climate. He speculates that uplift of central Asia in the Pliocene may have triggered the formation of many of the major rivers that drain north through Siberia into the Arctic Ocean. He also argues that it is the delivery of this fresh water that allows the formation of sea ice in that area and triggered the start of Northern Hemispheric glaciation. This may be one of the most dramatic ways in which Asia has shaped the Earth's climate and represents an alternative to the other competing models that have previously emphasized the role of oceanic gateway closure in Central America. Moreover, his proposal for major uplift of at least part of Tibet and Mongolia as late as the Pliocene, based on the history of drainage evolution in Siberia, supports recent data from the southern Tarim Basin and from the Qilian Shan and Qaidam and Jiuxi Basins in northeast Tibet that indicate surface uplift at that time. Constraining the timing and patterns of Tibetan surface uplift is crucial to testing competing models for strain accommodation in Asia following India – Asia collision.
Contents
Preface
Peter Clift, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Pinxian Wang, and Dennis Hayes vii
Introduction
Cenozoic Deformation and the History of Sea-Land Interactions in Asia
Pinxian Wang 1
Tectonic Interactions
Problem of Positioning Paleogene Eurasia: A Review; Efforts t o Resolve the Issue; Implications for the India-Asia Collision
Jason R. AH and Jonathan C. Aitchison 23
Reconstructing the Lost Eastern Tethys Ocean Basin: Convergence of the SE Asian Margin and Marine Gateways
Christian Heine, Dietmar Muller, and Carmen Gaina 37
Sundaland Basins
Robert Hall and Christopher K. Morley 55
Formation of the Japan and Kuril Basins in the Late Tertiary
Eiichi Honza, Hidekazu Tokuyama, and Wonn Soh 87
Experimental Constraints on Cenozoic Development of Ying-Qiong Basin in NW South China Sea
Zhen Sun, Zhihong Zhong, Di Zhou, Xeulin Qiu, and Xuxuan Li 109
Seafloor Spreading Anomalies in the South China Sea Revisited
Udo Barckhausen and Hans A. Roeser 121
Interactions During Arc Collision
Geodynamic Context of the Taiwan Orogene
Jean-Claude Sibuet, Shu-Kun Hsu, and Eric Debayle 127
An Under-filled Foreland Basin in the Northern South China Sea off Southeast Taiwan: Incipient Collision and Foreland Sedimentation
Ho-ShingYu 159
Sedimentary Interactions
High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Studies of Late Quaternary Sediments in the Eastern Yellow Sea
Young Jae Shinn, Sung Kwun Chough, Jae Woo Kim, Sang Hoon Lee, Jusan Woo, Jae Hwa Jin, Se Yeol Hwang, Seong Ho Choi, and Man Cheol Suh 175
Formation of a Mud Belt and Sand Ridges During Holocene Sea-level Rise, Southeastern Yellow Sea
Jae Hwa Jin and Sung Kwun Chough 193
Late Quaternary Sedimentation in the Eastern Continental Margin of the Korean Peninsula
Sang Hoon Lee, Jang Jun Bahk, and Sung Kwun Chough 205
Sediment Supply, Tectonic Subsidence, and Basin-Filling Patterns Across the Southwestern South China Sea During Pliocene to Recent Time
Mychal R. Murray and Steven L. Dorobek 235
Climatic Continent-Ocean Interactions
Marine Sedimentary Evidence for Monsoon Strengthening, Tibetan Uplift and Drainage Evolution in East Asia
Peter D. Clift, Graham D. Layne, andJerzy Blusztajn 255
Onset and Evolution of Millennial-Scale Variability in the Asian Monsoon and Its Impact on Paleoceanography of the Japan Sea
Ryuji Tada 283
Neogene History of the Indonesian Throughflow
Wolfgang Kuhnt, Ann Holbourn, Robert Hall, Maja Zuvela, and Rolf Kase 299
Orbitally Paced Climate Variability During the Middle Miocene: High Resolution Benthic Foraminiferal Stable-Isotope Records From the Tropical Western Pacific
Ann Holbourn, Wolfgang Kuhnt, and Michael Schulz 321
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