Opening of the South China Sea and Upwelling of the Hainan Plume

Hainan mantle plume produced late Cenozoic basaltic rocks in Thailand, Southeast Asia

(2018) Quanshu Yan et al.   Scientific Reports

Paleogene igneous intrusion and its effect on thermal maturity of organic-rich mudstones in the Beibuwan Basin, South China Sea

(2017) Entao Liu et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Evolution of carbonated melt to alkali basalt in the South China Sea

(2017) Guo-Liang Zhang et al.   Nature Geoscience

Seismic evidence of the Hainan mantle plume by receiver function analysis in southern China

(2016) S. Shawn Wei et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

From convergent plate margin to arc–continent collision: Formation of the Kenting Mélange, Southern Taiwan

(2016) Xinchang Zhang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

40Ar/39Ar ages of seamount trachytes from the South China Sea and implications for the evolution of the northwestern sub-basin

(2015) Xiaohu Li et al.   Geoscience Frontiers

Ages and magnetic structures of the South China Sea constrained by deep tow magnetic surveys and IODP Expedition 349

(2014) Chun-Feng Li et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Provenance analysis of the Miocene accretionary prism of the Hengchun Peninsula, southern Taiwan, and regional geological significance

(2014) Xinchang Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Identification of an ancient mantle reservoir and young recycled materials in the source region of a young mantle plume: Implications for potential linkages between plume and plate tectonics

(2013) Xuan-Ce Wang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geochronology and geochemistry of Cenozoic basalts from eastern Guangdong, SE China: constraints on the lithosphere evolution beneath the northern margin of the South China Sea

(2012) Xiao-Long Huang et al.   CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY

Mesozoic and early Cenozoic tectonic convergence-to-rifting transition prior to opening of the South China Sea

(2012) Hesheng Shi et al.   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Age and geochemical characteristics of Paleogene basalts drilled from western Taiwan: Records of initial rifting at the southeastern Eurasian continental margin

(2012) Kuo-Lung Wang et al.   LITHOS

Age and Geochemical Features of Dredged Basalts from Offshore SW Taiwan: The Coincidence of Intra-Plate Magmatism with the Spreading South China Sea

(2012) Kuo-Lung Wang et al.   TERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES

Opening and evolution of the South China Sea constrained by studies on volcanic rocks: Preliminary results and a research design

(2011) YiGang Xu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Temperature, Pressure, and Composition of the Mantle Source Region of Late Cenozoic Basalts in Hainan Island, SE Asia: a Consequence of a Young Thermal Mantle Plume close to Subduction Zones?

(2011) Xuan-Ce Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Onset of the Indian Ocean isotopic signature in the Philippine Sea Plate: Hf and Pb isotope evidence from Early Cretaceous terranes

(2008) R. Hickey-Vargas et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geochemical and geochronological study of the Sanshui basin bimodal volcanic rock suite, China: Implications for basin dynamics in southeastern China

(2008) Haimin Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

New seismic constraints on the upper mantle structure of the Hainan plume

(2008) Jianshe Lei et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS