Configuration of the South China Sea Oceanic Domain at the End of Seafloor Spreading


Jean-Claude Sibuet1, Minghui Zhao2, Siqing Liu3, Xinming Pang4, Xuelin Qiu2, Jonny Wu5 and Gao Jinyao6, (1)Ifremer Centre de Brest, 29280 Plouzané, France and 44 rue du Cloitre, 29280 Plouzané, France, Plouzané, France, (2)South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (3)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (4)Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China, (5)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanographic Administration of China, Hangzhou, China