Rapid Transition from Continental Breakup to Igneous Oceanic Crust in the South China Sea


Hans Christian Larsen1,2, Geoffroy Mohn3, Michael Nirrengarten3, Zhen Sun4, Joann M Stock5, Zhimin Jian6, Adam Klaus7, Carlos A Alvarez Zarikian8 and Scientific Party of IODP Expedition 367/368, (1)Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Köbenhavn, Denmark, (2)Tongji University, State key laboratory of marine geology, Shanghai, China, (3)University of Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France, (4)South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, Guangzhou, China, (5)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Tongji University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China, (7)Texas A&M University, International Ocean Discovery Program, College Station, TX, United States, (8)Texas A&M University, Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordination Office, College Station, United States