Whereabouts of the collision belt between the Sino-Korean and South China blocks in the northeast Asian margin

Sung Kwun Chough, Dong Jin Lee, Jin Han Ree

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    Abstract

    This study delineates the collision belt (late Permian-Triassic) between the Sino-Korean and South China blocks in the northeast Asian margin, based on correlation of endemic fossil components (corals) in shallow marine deposits of the Silurian and Devonian, identified in both south China and southwest and northeast Japan. The Qinling-Dabie Belt in China was offset by the left-lateral Tanlu Fault and contiguous to the Sulu Belt. The Imjingang Belt in the Korean peninsula was, in turn, offset by the right-lateral South Korean Tectonic Line, and extended eastward to the Namhae Belt (newly named). Further east, it extended to the Higo Belt and the Kitakami Terrane in Japan, prior to the opening of the East Sea in the Miocene. The collision in the northeastern Asian margin in the Triassic was superposed by contemporaneous subduction of the paleo-Pacific Plate.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)397-401
    Number of pages5
    JournalGeosciences Journal
    Volume17
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013 Dec

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: This work was supported by the Korea Research Foundation (2012054600) to SKC. We thank J.-H. Lee and G.B. Kim for helpful discussion and preparation of the figures. We gratefully acknowledge critical review of the manuscript by D.K. Choi, M. Cho, and Y.K. Sohn.

    Keywords

    • Namhae Belt
    • Sino-Korean Block
    • South China Block
    • collision belt

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Environmental Science
    • General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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