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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2019.52.5.337

A New Tectonic Model of Cretaceous East Asia: Role of Mantle Plume  

Lee, Changyeol (Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.52, no.5, 2019 , pp. 337-345 More about this Journal
Abstract
The hypothesis of ridge subduction which explains the Cretaceous igneous activities in East Asia including China, Korea and Japan, has been widely accepted in the society. Especially, the hypothesis explains the southwest-to-northeast migration of the Cretaceous adakite emergence in Southwest Japan. However, the hypothesis has several issues because the geochemical analyses and plate reconstruction model are not consistent with the consequences of the ridge subduction. To resolve the issues, a new hypothesis of the plume-continent and plume-slab interaction is suggested, which explains the igneous activities during the Cretaceous. In this review, I briefly introduce the two hypotheses and suggest an additional future study to prove the new hypothesis.
Keywords
Cretaceous; igneous activity; ridge subduction; plume-continent and plume-slab interaction;
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