Southeast Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau, the South China Sea, and surrounding regions, has the most complex neotectonics on Earth, featured by episodic plate destruction and construction events, along with convergent and divergent plate boundaries. Episodic and multiple tectonic events regulate the dynamic evolution of Southeast Asia. This region has been recording and presenting a series of fundamental tectonic processes in the past and present, respectively, such as continental rifting, seafloor spreading, plate subduction, and continental collision.
In this regard, this Research Topic would like to seek the answers to cutting-edge plate tectonic questions by investigating Southeast Asia, for instance, the onset and termination of sea basins, the subduction initiation, the uplift and expanding of continental plateaus, the interaction between adjacent tectonic units, and the transformation between divergent and convergent plate boundaries.
This Research Topic aims to bring together state-of-the-art studies on the tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia to address novel geological and geophysical observations as well as geodynamical numerical modeling. Specific themes include, but not limited to:
• Plate destruction along subduction zones and collisional belts
• Plate construction along rifting and spreading centers
• Transformation between divergent and convergent plate boundaries
• Plate motion reorganization due to episodic tectonic events
• Linking lithospheric deformation to mantle flow
• Lithospheric structure of Southeast Asia and its surrounding regions
Southeast Asia, including the Tibetan Plateau, the South China Sea, and surrounding regions, has the most complex neotectonics on Earth, featured by episodic plate destruction and construction events, along with convergent and divergent plate boundaries. Episodic and multiple tectonic events regulate the dynamic evolution of Southeast Asia. This region has been recording and presenting a series of fundamental tectonic processes in the past and present, respectively, such as continental rifting, seafloor spreading, plate subduction, and continental collision.
In this regard, this Research Topic would like to seek the answers to cutting-edge plate tectonic questions by investigating Southeast Asia, for instance, the onset and termination of sea basins, the subduction initiation, the uplift and expanding of continental plateaus, the interaction between adjacent tectonic units, and the transformation between divergent and convergent plate boundaries.
This Research Topic aims to bring together state-of-the-art studies on the tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia to address novel geological and geophysical observations as well as geodynamical numerical modeling. Specific themes include, but not limited to:
• Plate destruction along subduction zones and collisional belts
• Plate construction along rifting and spreading centers
• Transformation between divergent and convergent plate boundaries
• Plate motion reorganization due to episodic tectonic events
• Linking lithospheric deformation to mantle flow
• Lithospheric structure of Southeast Asia and its surrounding regions
