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Sedimentary features of the Yangtze River-derived along-shelf clinoform deposit in the East China Sea
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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.About:
This article is published in Continental Shelf Research.The article was published on 2006-11-01. It has received 443 citations till now.read more
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Large-river delta-front estuaries as natural "recorders" of global environmental change.
TL;DR: This article proposes that more emphasis should be placed on LDE in future global climate change research, and uses some of the most anthropogenically altered LDE systems in the world, the Mississippi/Atchafalaya River and the Chinese rivers that enter the Yellow Sea as case-studies, to posit that these systems are both “drivers” and “recorders” of natural and anthropogenic environmental change.
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Dam impacts on the Changjiang (Yangtze) River sediment discharge to the sea: The past 55 years and after the Three Gorges Dam
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.
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Recent changes of sediment flux to the western Pacific Ocean from major rivers in East and Southeast Asia
Houjie Wang,Houjie Wang,Yoshiki Saito,Yong Zhang,Naishuang Bi,Naishuang Bi,Xiaoxiao Sun,Xiaoxiao Sun,Zuosheng Yang +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed a time series of data on annual water discharges and sediment fluxes from these large rivers to the western Pacific Ocean covering the period 1950-2008 and found that the short-term variation of sediment flux is dominated by natural climatic oscillations such as the El Nino/La Nina cycle and that anthropogenic causes involving dams and land use control the long-term (decadal scale) decrease in sediment flux to the ocean.
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A unique Yellow River-derived distal subaqueous delta in the Yellow Sea
Zuosheng Yang,J. P. Liu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, high-resolution Chirp sonar profiles reveal a unique Yellow River-derived, alongshore distributed, bidirectional (landward and seaward) across-shelf transported, omega-shaped (Ω) distal subaqueous deltaic lobe deposited around the eastern tip of the Shandong Peninsula in the Yellow Sea.
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Yangtze- and Taiwan-derived sediments on the inner shelf of East China Sea
TL;DR: X-ray diffraction (XRD) and grain-size analyses indicate that inner continental shelf sediments in the East China Sea (ECS) represent a unique mixing of clays derived from the Yangtze River and silts/sands from small western Taiwanese rivers as discussed by the authors.
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World-Wide Delivery of River Sediment to the Oceans
John D. Milliman,Robert H. Meade +1 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that rivers with large sediment loads (annual discharges greater than about $15 \times 10^{6}$ tons) contribute about $7 −times 10 −9$ tons of suspended sediment to the ocean yearly.
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Flux and fate of Yangtze River sediment delivered to the East China Sea
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.
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Worldwide Initiation of Holocene Marine Deltas by Deceleration of Sea-Level Rise
TL;DR: Establishment of a chronostratigraphic framework for Holocene delta development provides a fundamental global baseline for distinguishing sea-level change from vertical land motion by tectonism and isostasy, and for evaluating rates of future marine incursion into low-lying deltas.
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Discharge of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) into the East China Sea
TL;DR: In this article, the spatial and temporal structure of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) discharge over the inner and mid continental shelf off eastern China has been analyzed using hydrographic and current meter data collected during June 1980, August 1981, and November 1981.
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Holocene development of the Yellow River's subaqueous delta, North Yellow Sea
TL;DR: In this article, high-resolution seismic profiles from the North Yellow Sea reveal a 20-40m-thick subaqueous clinoform delta that wraps around the eastern end of the Shandong Peninsula, extending into the South Yellow Sea.