About this title ‐ River-Dominated Shelf Sediments of East Asian Seas

Autor:	J. Wu, Jan Harff, Peter D. Clift, Y. Qui
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	geography geography.geographical_feature_category Plateau Continental shelf Ocean current Sediment Geology Ocean Engineering Longshore drift Oceanography Typhoon Submarine pipeline Sediment transport Water Science and Technology
Zdroj:	Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 429
ISSN:	2041-4927 0305-8719
Popis:	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 long-term 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.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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