Abstract: The Southeast China Block was located in the back margin of the Late Mesozoic Japan-Taiwan volcanic arc. The middle Jurassic-late Cretaceous extensional basins and volcanic-intrusive rock series are widely developed in the Southeast China region as a response of ancient Pacific Plate subduction toward the eastern Asia Continent leading the back-arc expansion. The types of basin include the middle Jurassic rifts, the late Jurassic-early Cretaceous volcanoclastic and lava faulted-depression basins and the late Cretaceous-Paleogene redbed faulted-depression basins. The igneous rock series consists mainly of granitoids, bimodal magmatic rocks, A-type granites, metamorphic core complexes and doming-shape plutons, which were formed in the early Cretaceous with a peak value of 140-110 Ma). The basins coexist together with coeval plutons and constituted the Early Cretaceous Southeast China Basin and Range tectonics. This study summarized the principal geological features of the Late Mesozoic Southeast China basin and range geomorphology and analyzed the petrological and geological structural marks and the constraint factors forming the Southeast China bansin and range framework. Finally we discussed the Late Mesozoic geodynamic process of the Southeast China region.

Key words: basin and range tectonics, igneous rock assemblages, Late Mesozoic, geodynamic evolution, Southeast China