Kehui Xu

TL;DR: In this paper, high-resolution seismic profiling and coring in the southern East China Sea during 2003 and 2004 cruises has revealed an elongated (similar to 800 km) distal subaqueous mud wedge extending from the Yangtze River mouth southward off the Zhejiang and Fujian coasts into the Taiwan Strait.

TL;DR: Using 50 years of hydrologic and bathymetric data, Wang et al. as discussed by the authors show that construction of approximately 50,000 dams throughout the Yangtze River watershed, particularly the 2003 closing of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD), has resulted in downstream channel erosion and coarsening of bottom sediment, and erosion of the subaqueous delta, and the delta front has devolved from ~125mm3 (1 Mm3 = 1000 000 m3)/yr of sediment accumulation in the 1960s and 1970s, when river sediment load

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the sediment budget and sediment erosion data for the Changjiang subaqueous delta will be eroded extensively during the first five decades after the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) operation and then will approach a balance during the next five decades as sediment discharging from TGD again increases.

TL;DR: A predominant sigmoidal clinoform deposit extends from the Yangtze River mouth southwards 800 kin along the Chinese coast, reaching water depths of 60 and 90 m and distances up to 100 km offshore as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In the last half of the 20th century, cumulative annual discharge from 137 representative rivers (watershed areas ranging from 0.3 to 6300 × 10 3 ǫ km 2 ) to the global ocean remained constant, although annual discharge of about one-third of these rivers changed by more than 30% as mentioned in this paper.