AN ESSAY ON DIWA TECTONICS AND PLATE MOVEMENT IN SOUTH CHINA
After the Indo-China movement, the crustal development of south China evolved from the platform stage into the diwa stage. According to the plate tectonics theory, the continental crust of the eact margin of south China at that time was just converted from the cont- inental margin of island arc type into that ot Andes type. Thus the "ancient Pacient plate" subducted directly under the "ancient Eurasia plate" so that the consolidated continental crust fo south of Chia underwent buckling and blockfaulting movement with extensive magmatic intrusion and extrusion. The charateristics of diwa tectonics agree with plate movement in time, space and causes, indicating that the two theories are very similar.