Middle and Late Tertiary Palaeogeography and Palaeoenvironment on the Northern Continental Margin of the South China Sea

作     者：Duan Weiwu Huang Yongyang Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, Guangzhou, Guangdong 

作者机构：Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences Beijing 

出 版 物：《Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition)》 (地质学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：1990年第64卷第2期

页      面：211-222页

核心收录：

学科分类：0709[理学-地质学] 081803[工学-地质工程] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 

主　　题：Middle and Late Tertiary Palaeogeography and Palaeoenvironment on the Northern Continental Margin of the South China Sea 

摘      要：Based essentially on research results of calcareous nannofossils, combined with some other microfossil da- ta and several secondary depositional breaks, this paper discusses the criteria of division and comparison of the middle and late Tertiary marine sediments, palaeogeographical and palaeoenvironmental evolution and palaeoclimates on the northern continental margin of the South China Sea, comprising the Tainan basin, Pearl River Mouth basin. Southeast Hainan basin and Beibu Gulf basin. Study shows that the upper Oligocene to Pliocene strata in the whole area consist essentially of marine sediments except in the Beibu Gulf basin. They include littoral. neritic and deltaic sediments as well as carbonate rock-bioherm limestone. The sea advanced from southeast to northwest. During the transgression there appeared three culminations coinciding to the stages of deposition of nannofossil zones NN4-5, NN11 and 13-15.