OS53C:
South China Sea: A Natural Laboratory for Investigating Marginal Sea Tectonic, Oceanographic/Paleoceanographic, and Biogeochemical Processes II

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Session ID#: 15103

Session Description:
The South China Sea (SCS) is the largest marginal sea of the northern Pacific, serving as a natural laboratory for investigating the tectonic interactions of marginal seas with Eurasian, Indo-Australian, and Pacific plates. SCS is critically situated at the gateway between the Pacific and Indian Ocean, moderating climate changes and carbon cycles at multiple time scales. The last several years have witnessed major progress in investigating the SCS through multidisciplinary initiatives and enhanced international collaboration, including IODP Exp. 349 in 2014, IODP Exp. 367/368 scheduled for 2017, and the ongoing “South China Sea Deep” initiative. This session will highlight recent multidisciplinary progress: (1) Tectonic interactions of the SCS with major tectonic plates, and their linkages with sedimentary processes; (2) Sedimentary records and paleoceanography; (3) Physical oceanographic processes of and interaction with the Pacific and Indian Ocean; (4) Biogeochemistry of carbon and nutrients in the SCS and surrounding oceans.
Primary Convener:  Zhimin Jian, Tongji University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China
Conveners:  Minhan Dai, Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science; College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen, China and Karl Stattegger, University of Kiel, Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany
Chairs:  Zhimin Jian, Tongji University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China, Karl Stattegger, University of Kiel, Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany and Minhan Dai, Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science; College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen, China
OSPA Liaison:  Karl Stattegger, University of Kiel, Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany

Cross-Listed:
  • GP - Geomagnetism, Paleomagnetism and Electromagnetism
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • T - Tectonophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

4219 Continental shelf and slope processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4299 General or miscellaneous [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
8177 Tectonics and climatic interactions [TECTONOPHYSICS]
8178 Tectonics and magmatism [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Recent Multidisciplinary Research Initiatives and IODP Drilling in the South China Sea (180095)
Jian Lin, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States; Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Chun-Feng Li, Zhejiang University, Department of Marine Sciences, Zhoushan, China, Pinxian Wang, Tongji University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China and Denise K Kulhanek, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany
Deep Sea Researches in the South China Sea: Past, Present and Future (153929)
Pinxian Wang, Tongji University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China
South China Sea kinematics (144132)
Jean-Claude Sibuet, Ifremer Centre de Brest, 29280 Plouzané, France and 44 rue du Cloitre, 29280 Plouzané, France, Plouzané, France, Jinyao Gao, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China, Hangzhou, China, Minghui Zhao, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, Jonny Wu, University of Houston, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, Weiwei Ding, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanographic Administration of China, Hangzhou, China, Yi-Ching Yeh, TORI Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Chao-Shing Lee, NTOU National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan
Tectonic and magmatic processes of the post-spreading ridge in the Southwest Sub-basin, South China Sea (132761)
Jiabiao Li, Jie Zhang, Aiguo Ruan, Xiongwei Niu and Weiwei Ding, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanographic Administration of China, Hangzhou, China
IODP drilling in the South China Sea in 2017 will address the mechanism of continental breakup (144792)
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
Crustal and mantle source inputs in the evolution of the South China Sea (137161)
Maria Luisa G Tejada1, Paterno Castillo2, Xiao-Long Huang3, Ryoko Senda1 and IODP Expedition 349 Science Party, (1)JAMSTEC, Yokosuka, Japan, (2)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Geochemical Constraints on Mantle Source and Melting Dynamics of the South China Sea Spreading Center (132437)
Guoliang Zhang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China and Matthew G Jackson, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
OBS seismic data preliminary results: Manila subduction zone (21°N) (125874)
Minghui Zhao1, Siqing Liu2, Longtao Sun2, Jean-Claude Sibuet3, Jiazheng Zhang2, Chuanxu Chen4 and Xuelin Qiu2, (1)Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Guangzhou, China, (2)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (3)Retired, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China

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