IODP drilling in the South China Sea in 2017 will address the mechanism of continental breakup

Zhen Sun1, Hans Christian Larsen2,3, Jian Lin4, Xiong Pang5, Kirk D McIntosh6, Joann M Stock7, Zhimin Jian8, Pinxian Wang8 and Chunfeng Li9, (1)South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, Guangzhou, China, (2)Tongji University, Shanghai, China, (3)The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, (4)Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)China National Offshore Oil Company Ltd.-Shenzhen Branch, Shenzhen, China, (6)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (7)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)Tongji University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China, (9)Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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