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Advances in Geosciences 地球科学前沿, 2013, 3, 299-307 /10.12677/ag.2013.36041 Published Online December 2013 (/journal/ag.html) The Small-Scale Mantle Convection and the Correlating with * Sequence Stratigraphic # Xiaolong Zhou, Hao Liu , Chunchen Zhao The School of Ocean, China University of Geosciences, Beijing Email: #lhcugb@163.com Received: Oct. 17th th st , 2013; revised: Nov. 12 , 2013; accepted: Nov. 21 , 2013 Copyright © 2013 Xiaolong Zhou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In accordance of the Creative Commons Attribution License all Copyrights © 2013 are reserved for Hans and the owner of the intellectual property Xiaolong Zhou et al. All Copyright © 2013 are guarded by law and by Hans as a guardian Abstract: The concept of small-scale mantle convection has been proposed for more than 20 years. We use it to explain some of the more unusual geological phenomena, such as the rapid uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and the Tianshan etc. These tectonic subsidence and uplift are a direct impact on the division of sequence boundaries as well as the formation time. According to Petersen’s numerical simulations, it shows that small-scale convection driven stratigraphic sequences occur at periods of 2 to 20 million years. By correlating the third-order sequences, it is very important for the regional tectonic movements and sea level changes. Although small-scale mant