Table of Contents

Preface
Peter Clift, Wolfgang Kuhnt, Pinxian Wang, and Dennis Hayes vii

Introduction

Cenozoic Deformation and the History of Sea-Land Interactions in Asia
Pinxian Wang 1

Tectonic Interactions

Problem of Positioning Paleogene Eurasia: A Review; Efforts t o Resolve the Issue; Implications
for the India-Asia Collision
Jason R. AH and Jonathan C. Aitchison 23

Reconstructing the Lost Eastern Tethys Ocean Basin: Convergence of the SE Asian Margin and Marine
Gateways
Christian Heine, Dietmar Muller, and Carmen Gaina 37

Sundaland Basins
Robert Hall and Christopher K. Morley 55

Formation of the Japan and Kuril Basins in the Late Tertiary
Eiichi Honza, Hidekazu Tokuyama, and Wonn Soh 87

Experimental Constraints on Cenozoic Development of Ying-Qiong Basin in NW South China Sea
Zhen Sun, Zhihong Zhong, Di Zhou, Xeulin Qiu, and Xuxuan Li 109

Seafloor Spreading Anomalies in the South China Sea Revisited
Udo Barckhausen and Hans A. Roeser 121

Interactions During Arc Collision

Geodynamic Context of the Taiwan Orogene
Jean-Claude Sibuet, Shu-Kun Hsu, and Eric Debayle 127

An Under-filled Foreland Basin in the Northern South China Sea off Southeast Taiwan: Incipient
Collision and Foreland Sedimentation
Ho-ShingYu 159

Sedimentary Interactions

High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Studies of Late Quaternary Sediments in the Eastern Yellow Sea
Young Jae Shinn, Sung Kwun Chough, Jae Woo Kim, Sang Hoon Lee, Jusan Woo, Jae Hwa Jin,
Se Yeol Hwang, Seong Ho Choi, and Man Cheol Suh 175

Formation of a Mud Belt and Sand Ridges During Holocene Sea-level Rise, Southeastern Yellow Sea
Jae Hwa Jin and Sung Kwun Chough  193

Late Quaternary Sedimentation in the Eastern Continental Margin of the Korean Peninsula
Sang Hoon Lee, Jang Jun Bahk, and Sung Kwun Chough 205

Sediment Supply, Tectonic Subsidence, and Basin-Filling Patterns Across the Southwestern
South China Sea During Pliocene to Recent Time
Mychal R. Murray and Steven L. Dorobek 235

Climatic Continent-Ocean Interactions

Marine Sedimentary Evidence for Monsoon Strengthening, Tibetan Uplift and Drainage Evolution
in East Asia
Peter D. CUft, Graham D. Layne, andJerzy Blusztajn 255

Onset and Evolution of Millennial-Scale Variability in the Asian Monsoon and Its Impact on
Paleoceanography of the Japan Sea
Ryuji Tada 283

Neogene History of the Indonesian Throughflow
Wolfgang Kuhnt, Ann Holbourn, Robert Hall, Maja Zuvela, and Rolf Kase 299

Orbitally Paced Climate Variability During the Middle Miocene: High Resolution Benthic
Foraminiferal Stable-Isotope Records From the Tropical Western Pacific
Ann Holbourn, Wolfgang Kuhnt, and Michael Schulz 321

About the Author

Peter Clift is a British marine geologist and geophysicist specializing in the geology of Asia and the western Pacific. He is currently the Charles T. McCord Professor of Petroleum Geology at Louisiana State University, which he joined in 2012. Wolfgang Kuhnt is the editor of Continent-Ocean Interactions Within East Asian Marginal Seas, published by Wiley.