River-Dominated Shelf Sediments of East Asian Seas
Product code: SP429
Print publication date: 23/08/2016
Earth Materials Deposits and Petrology, Sedimentology, Geomorphology, Palaeoclimatology, GSL Special Publications, Geological Society of London
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781862397408
Author/Edited by: Edited by P.D. Clift, J. Harff, J. Wu & Y. Qui
Weight: 1kg
Number of pages: 268
Online publication date: 08/08/2016
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/429/1
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Product Code: SP429
Edited by P.D. Clift, J. Harff, J. Wu & Y. Qui
Special Publication 429
The rivers of East Asia are some of the largest and most important to human society and the global economy. They drain a variety of terrains from the Tibetan plateau, the hill country of southern China and the steep mountains of Taiwan. The sediment they carry potentially records the longterm evolution of continental environments within the marine stratigraphic record. Sediments reaching the ocean have to traverse the wide continental shelves where they may be reworked and transported by longshore currents, typhoon storm waves, as well as large ocean currents such as the Kuroshio. Deciphering any marine record requires us to understand the dynamics of sediment transport on the continental shelves, and this region acts as a global type example of such processes. Studies in this volume span a wide range of subdisciplines in the marine sciences and provide new insights into how sediment is distributed offshore after leaving the river mouths.
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Published online on the Lyell Collection 09/08/2016 http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/429/1
Clift, P. D., Harff, J., Wu, J. & Qiu, Y. Introduction to the River-Dominated Shelf Sediments of the East Asian Seas
Provenance Proxies
Clift, P. D. Assessing effective provenance methods for fluvial sediment in the South China Sea
Shao, L., Qiao, P., Zhao, M., Li, Q., Wu, M., Pang, X. & Zhang, H. Depositional characteristics of the northern South China Sea in response to the evolution of the Pearl River
Chemical Weathering
Hu, D., Clift, P. D., Wan, S., Böning, P., Hannigan, R., Hillier, S. & Blusztajn, J. Testing chemical weathering proxies in Miocene–Recent fluvial-derived sediments in the South China Sea
Cui, Z., Hou, Y., Xia, Z., Liang, K., Xue, Q. & Zhang, L. Geochemical characteristics and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the sediments from the Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea
Sea-level Rise and Sediment Storage
Ni, Y., Harff, J., Xia, Z., Waniek, J. J., Endler, M. & Schulz-Bull, D. E. Post-glacial mud depocentre in the southern Beibu Gulf: acoustic features and sedimentary environment evolution
Chen, H., Harff, J., Qiu, Y., Osadczuk, A., Zhang, J., Tomczak, M., Cui, Z., Cai, G., Wen, M. & Li, L. Last Glacial Cycle and seismic stratigraphic sequences offshore western Hainan Island, NW South China Sea
Zong, Y., Huang, G., Li, X. Y. & Sun, Y. Y. Late Quaternary tectonics, sea-level change and lithostratigraphy along the northern coast of the South China Sea
Yang, S., Bi, L., Li, C., Wang, Z. & Dou, Y. Major sinks of the Changjiang (Yangtze River)-derived sediments in the East China Sea during the late Quaternary
Shelf Currents
Wu, J., Ren, J., Liu, H., Qiu, C., Cui, Y. & Zhang, Q. Trapping and escaping processes of Yangtze River-derived sediments to the East China Sea
Anthropogenic Impacts
Jia, P., Xia, Z., Yin., Y. & Xue, Q. Lingdingyang Bay, Pearl River Estuary (China): geomorphological evolution and hydrodynamics.
Wang, Y., Liu, X., Li, G. & Zhang, W. Stratigraphic variations in the Diaokou lobe area of the Yellow River delta, China: implications for an evolutionary model of a delta lobe
Environmental Impacts
Zhou, Y., Chen, F., Wu, C., Yu, S. & Zhuang, C. Palaeoproductivity linked to monsoon variability in the northern slope of the South China Sea from the last 290 kyr: evidence of benthic foraminifera from Core SH7B
Zhang, J., Tomczak, M., Li, C., Witkowski, A., Qiu, Y., Chen, H. & Gao, H. Significance of the Paralia sulcata fossil record in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions of the SE Asia marginal seas over the Last Glacial Cycle
Gao, S., Wang, D., Yang, Y., Zhou, L., Zhao, Y. A., Gao, W., Han, Z., Yu., Q. & Li, G. Holocene sedimentary systems on a broad continental shelf with abundant river input: process–product relationships
Index
23.02.2018
It highlights recent developments in our understanding of fluvial sediment fluxes and shelf deposits with the marginal seas of eastern Asia in terms of provenance and weathering, sea-level rise and sequence stratigraphy, sediment transport, anthropogenic and environmental impacts.
In summary, the book not only highlights several complexities of fluvial sediment transport and deposition on continental shelves but also shows the limitations of shelf deposits in the geological record. In addition to the excellent introduction, I would have liked to see a concluding chapter with a synthesis of the multi-faceted and heterogeneous collection of articles.
I can fully recommend this book to researchers interested in East Asian sedimentology and, more generally, in continental shelf sedimentation processes and resulting sedimentary records.
Review featured The Holocene 27 (12)
