Discovery of the marine Eocene in the northern South China Sea

• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（5）
• 页码范围: 881-886
• 页数: 6页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwz084

摘要

The nature of the Eocene stratigraphy of the South China Sea (SCS) has been a mystery for decades.In the southern SCS,the Eocene system with marine deposits is often considered as representing part of the ‘Proto-South China Sea'[1].In the northern SCS,however,the Eocene is dominated by non-marine sequences of South China origin [2],probably also related to the Proto-SCS [3].Then the question is what kind of SCS northern margin was in the Eocene:part of the South China continent or part ofProto-SCS or even an eastern extension of the shrinking Tethys Ocean?