从东亚大陆中、新生代的运动探讨南海的形成演化

根据古地磁、古生物地理和地质构造分析，东亚大陆在中生代中晚期至新生代初期大幅度向南运动；新生代中晚期以来大幅度向北运动。运动学模式发生巨大转变的时期，大致在始新世与渐新世之间，这与全球运动学和动力学发生的重大改组的时间相一致。由此提出大陆后退这一新的南海形成演化的运动学模式。

AN INQUIRY INTO THE EVOLUTION OF SOUTH CHINA SEA FROM MOVEMENTS OF THE EAST ASIAN CONTINENT DURING MESOZOIC AND CENOZOIC

Based on paleomagnetic, paleo-biogeographic and geotectonic analyses, the East Asian Continent moved in large extent to the south direction during the Middle and Late Mesozoic to Early Cenozoic, but it moved in large extent to the north since Middle and Late Cenozoic. The massive changes of the kinematic pattern occurred roughly between the Eocene and Oligocene epochs, which is in accordance with the great reorganization in global kinematics and dynamics. Thus,a new kinematic model for the formation and evolution of the South China Sea is put forth, that is a kinematic model of the retreating continent.