Taixinan Basin

[1] The Taixinan Basin is in the southern Taiwan Strait and the northeastern South China Sea.

In the later Miocene, the South China Sea basin halted its expansion in a period where the sediment layers were horizontal and not controlled by the effects of faulting.

[2] Within the Taixinan Basin, there are two depressions in the north and the south, separated by an uplift in the NE direction.

The thickness of the Cenozoic sediments in the depressions can reach 8000 m, increasing from west to east.

In the eastern part of the basin, the thickness of the sediments can reach 7000 m offshore Kaohsiung.