The Caroline Plate is located among the Pacific Plate,the Philippine Sea Plate,and the India Australia Plate,and plays a key role in controlling the spreading direction of the Philippine Sea Plate.The Caroline Submari...The Caroline Plate is located among the Pacific Plate,the Philippine Sea Plate,and the India Australia Plate,and plays a key role in controlling the spreading direction of the Philippine Sea Plate.The Caroline Submarine Plateau(or Caroline Ridge)and the Eauripik Rise on the south formed a remarkable T-shaped large igneous rock province,which covered the northern boundary between the Caroline Plate and the Pacific Plate.However,relationship between these tectonic units and magma evolution remains unclear.Based on magnetic data from the Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid(2-arc-minute resolution)(V2),the normalized vertical derivative of the total horizontal derivative(NVDR-THDR)technique was used to study the boundary of the Caroline Plate.Results show that the northern boundary is a transform fault that runs 1400 km long in approximately 28 km wide along the N8°in E-W direction.The eastern boundary is an NNW-SSE trending fault zone and subduction zone with a width of tens to hundreds of kilometers;and the north of N4°is a fracture zone of dense faults.The southeastern boundary may be the Lyra Trough.The area between the southwestern part of the Caroline Plate and the Ayu Trough is occupied by a wide shear zone up to 100 km wide in nearly S-N trending in general.The Eauripik transform fault(ETF)in the center of the Caroline Plate and the fault zones in the east and west basins are mostly semi-parallel sinistral NNW-SSE–trending faults,which together with the eastern boundary Mussau Trench(MT)sinistral fault,the northern Caroline transform fault(CTF),and the southern shear zone of the western boundary,indicates the sinistral characteristics of the Caroline Plate.The Caroline hotspot erupted in the Pacific Plate near the CTF and formed the west Caroline Ridge,and then joined with the Caroline transform fault at the N8°.A large amount of magma erupted along the CTF,by which the east Caroline Ridge was formed.At the same time,a large amount of magma developed southward via the eastern branch of the ETF,forming the northern segment of the Eauripik Rise.Therefore,the magmatic activity of the T-shaped large igneous province is obviously related to the fault structure of the boundary faults between the Caroline Plate and Pacific Plate,and the active faults within the Caroline Plate.展开更多
New seismic imaging from the Mussau Trench confirms that,under horizontal compression on an oceanic plate boundary,it is within the young and weak oceanic plate that a trench will develop,and it is the young plate,not...New seismic imaging from the Mussau Trench confirms that,under horizontal compression on an oceanic plate boundary,it is within the young and weak oceanic plate that a trench will develop,and it is the young plate,not so long after its birth,that starts to subduct toward the old plate.The Mesozoic Pacific Plate cannot easily bend,under the joint horizontal compression and vertical gravity pull,even with a pre-existing weak zone in place and with a large age offset across the plate boundary.The bending of the Caroline Plate near the northern end of the Mussau Trench started only after a long-time span of trench migration,and/or after a prolonged transition from initial compression to trench development.Highly contrasting trench deformation and sedimentary accretion between two parallel seismic sections support an evident migration of underthrusting or significant longitudinal heterogeneity along the trench.The swift transition from underthrusting to non-thrusting can be explained by a counter-clockwise rotation of the Caroline Plate.That miniature accretionary wedges develop even before the subduction initiates imply strong compression and uplifting before the underthrusting can kick-start.Rotation of the Caroline Plate have been halted as the Mussau Trench is seismically rather quiet and the Lyra Trough to the east shows relaxational extension.展开更多
The tectonic evolution of the Caroline Plate during the Oligocene to Early Miocene was mainly controlled by two fulcrums.The west fulcrum at Palau Island remained fixed during 29-25 Ma as the Ayu Trough rifted and pro...The tectonic evolution of the Caroline Plate during the Oligocene to Early Miocene was mainly controlled by two fulcrums.The west fulcrum at Palau Island remained fixed during 29-25 Ma as the Ayu Trough rifted and produced the abyssal hills parallel to its boundaries,and the Pacific Plate and part of the Caroline Plate subducted to the north.At the northeast corner of the Caroline Plate,the east fulcrum is surrounded by a series of arc seamount chains.These chains resulted from the convergence between the Caroline Plate and the Pacific Plate and crustal softening of the northeastern Caroline Plate induced by the Caroline Hotspot at~25 Ma.This softening of the crust also led to the dysfunction of the east fulcrum,and the west fulcrum migrated south,which caused dextral motion along the Ayu Rift and the development of an en echelon structure.The Yap Trench was a part of the spreading center in the Parece-Vela Rift at~29 Ma.However,sinistral motion along the Parece-Vela Rift at around 20-15 Ma led to the exposure of the subducted Yap Trench and left a triangular region with distinctive geophysical characteristics in the surrounding area.展开更多
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文摘The Caroline Plate is located among the Pacific Plate,the Philippine Sea Plate,and the India Australia Plate,and plays a key role in controlling the spreading direction of the Philippine Sea Plate.The Caroline Submarine Plateau(or Caroline Ridge)and the Eauripik Rise on the south formed a remarkable T-shaped large igneous rock province,which covered the northern boundary between the Caroline Plate and the Pacific Plate.However,relationship between these tectonic units and magma evolution remains unclear.Based on magnetic data from the Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid(2-arc-minute resolution)(V2),the normalized vertical derivative of the total horizontal derivative(NVDR-THDR)technique was used to study the boundary of the Caroline Plate.Results show that the northern boundary is a transform fault that runs 1400 km long in approximately 28 km wide along the N8°in E-W direction.The eastern boundary is an NNW-SSE trending fault zone and subduction zone with a width of tens to hundreds of kilometers;and the north of N4°is a fracture zone of dense faults.The southeastern boundary may be the Lyra Trough.The area between the southwestern part of the Caroline Plate and the Ayu Trough is occupied by a wide shear zone up to 100 km wide in nearly S-N trending in general.The Eauripik transform fault(ETF)in the center of the Caroline Plate and the fault zones in the east and west basins are mostly semi-parallel sinistral NNW-SSE–trending faults,which together with the eastern boundary Mussau Trench(MT)sinistral fault,the northern Caroline transform fault(CTF),and the southern shear zone of the western boundary,indicates the sinistral characteristics of the Caroline Plate.The Caroline hotspot erupted in the Pacific Plate near the CTF and formed the west Caroline Ridge,and then joined with the Caroline transform fault at the N8°.A large amount of magma erupted along the CTF,by which the east Caroline Ridge was formed.At the same time,a large amount of magma developed southward via the eastern branch of the ETF,forming the northern segment of the Eauripik Rise.Therefore,the magmatic activity of the T-shaped large igneous province is obviously related to the fault structure of the boundary faults between the Caroline Plate and Pacific Plate,and the active faults within the Caroline Plate.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant Nos.2023YFF0803400,2023YFF0803404)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.91858213)+2 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province(Grant No.421CXTD441)the Zhoushan Science and Technology Bureau Program(Grant No.2020C81058)the Shiptime Sharing Project from National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41949581)。
文摘New seismic imaging from the Mussau Trench confirms that,under horizontal compression on an oceanic plate boundary,it is within the young and weak oceanic plate that a trench will develop,and it is the young plate,not so long after its birth,that starts to subduct toward the old plate.The Mesozoic Pacific Plate cannot easily bend,under the joint horizontal compression and vertical gravity pull,even with a pre-existing weak zone in place and with a large age offset across the plate boundary.The bending of the Caroline Plate near the northern end of the Mussau Trench started only after a long-time span of trench migration,and/or after a prolonged transition from initial compression to trench development.Highly contrasting trench deformation and sedimentary accretion between two parallel seismic sections support an evident migration of underthrusting or significant longitudinal heterogeneity along the trench.The swift transition from underthrusting to non-thrusting can be explained by a counter-clockwise rotation of the Caroline Plate.That miniature accretionary wedges develop even before the subduction initiates imply strong compression and uplifting before the underthrusting can kick-start.Rotation of the Caroline Plate have been halted as the Mussau Trench is seismically rather quiet and the Lyra Trough to the east shows relaxational extension.
基金supported financially by the Scientific and Technological Innovation Project of Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(Qingdao)(Grant No.2017ASKJ02)the Scientific Research Start Funds Project of the Fourth Institute of Oceanography,Ministry of Natural Resources(Grant No.202007)+3 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U1606401)the National Ocean Bureau Program(Grant No.GASIGEOGE-1)the Aoshan Elite Scientist Plan(Grant No.2015ASTP-0S10)of Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(Qingdao)to Prof.Sanzhong LI and his research groupthe Taishan Scholor Program to Sanzhong LI。
文摘The tectonic evolution of the Caroline Plate during the Oligocene to Early Miocene was mainly controlled by two fulcrums.The west fulcrum at Palau Island remained fixed during 29-25 Ma as the Ayu Trough rifted and produced the abyssal hills parallel to its boundaries,and the Pacific Plate and part of the Caroline Plate subducted to the north.At the northeast corner of the Caroline Plate,the east fulcrum is surrounded by a series of arc seamount chains.These chains resulted from the convergence between the Caroline Plate and the Pacific Plate and crustal softening of the northeastern Caroline Plate induced by the Caroline Hotspot at~25 Ma.This softening of the crust also led to the dysfunction of the east fulcrum,and the west fulcrum migrated south,which caused dextral motion along the Ayu Rift and the development of an en echelon structure.The Yap Trench was a part of the spreading center in the Parece-Vela Rift at~29 Ma.However,sinistral motion along the Parece-Vela Rift at around 20-15 Ma led to the exposure of the subducted Yap Trench and left a triangular region with distinctive geophysical characteristics in the surrounding area.
