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2. Geological setting
The Y-SH Basin, located on the continental shelf at water depths of 50–200 m in the northwestern South China Sea (Fig. 1A), Omecamtiv mecarbil one of the largest Cenozoic pull-part basins in the world (Gong and Li, 1997, Huang et al., 2005 and Clift and Sun, 2006). It covers an area of about 500 × 60 km2 (Zhang and Zhang, 1993 and Luo et al., 2003) with the long axis oriented north-northwest to south-southeast and bordered by Beibuwan and Qiongdongnan basins on the north and east, respectively (Fig. 1B). The basin developed in response to the southeastward strike-slip faults and clockwise rotation of the Indochina Block as a receptor result of India–Asia collision (Molnar and Tapponnier, 1975, Tapponnier et al., 1986, Guo et al., 2001, Sun et al., 2003 and Yan et al., 2011a) (Fig. 1A).
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Fig. 1.
Geologic sketch map of the Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin region, (A) Modified after (Tapponnier et al., 1990, Leloup et al., 1995, Gilley et al., 2003 and Zhu et al., 2009); (B) and (C) Modified after (Huang et al., 2005 and Lei et al., 2011).