Meso-Cenozoic Lithosphere Thinning in the Eastern North China Craton: Evidence from Thermal History of the Bohai Bay Basin, North China

The formation and evolution of a rift basin is the shallow response of deep geodynamic processes. The Bohai Bay Basin is at the center of lithosphere destruction and thinning in the eastern North China Craton (NCC). In this article, the Meso-Cenozoic thermal lithospheric thickness of the Bohai Bay Basin was calculated by reconstructing the thermal history of the sedimentary basin using apatite fission track and vitrinite reflectance data. The...