Stratigraphic evolution of a Late Triassic to Early Jurassic intracontinental basin in southeastern South China: A consequence of flat-slab subduction?

An intracontinental basin formed on a young orogen in South China during the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic (T3–J1). A > 2000 m-thick siliciclastic sedimentary succession in the Daxi section, in northern Guangdong Province, near the depocentre of the basin, is correlated with the published Zhuyuan section and three other sections. The combined Daxi–Zhuyuan sections record a marine-influenced deltaic succession of Carnian to Early Toarcian age,...