A preliminary study on sediment flux in the Changjiang Delta during the postglacial period

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 743-752

  Li, Baohua ^a   Li, Congxian ^a   Shen, Huanting ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Postglacial transgressive cycle; Regressive succession; Sediment flux; The Changjiang Delta; The Changjiang River; Transgressive succession

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; FLOODS;

SEDIMENT FLUX;

SEDIMENTS;

CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; POSTGLACIAL; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

CHANGJIANG DELTA; CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 0042425696     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03yd9065     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Chen, J. Y., Shen, H. T., Yun, C. X. et al., Process of Dynamics and Geomorphology of the Changjiang Estuary (in Chinese), Shanghai: Shanghai Science and Technology Press, 1988, 1-5.
2. Zhu, C., Cheng, P., Lu, C. C. et al., Palaeocoastline evolution law of Yangtze River Delta and coastal area of north Jiangsu Province since 7000 aBP. Scientia Geographia Sinica (in Chinese), 1996, 16(3): 207-213.
3. Li, C. X., Wang, P. X., Late Quaternary Stratigraphy of the Yangtze Delta (in Chinese), Beijing: Science Press, 1998, 114-172.
4. Yang, S. Y,, Li, C. X., Zhang, J. Q., Palaeogeographic evolution of coastal plain and provenance study of postglacial sediments in north Jiangsu Province, Journal of Palaeogeography (in Chinese), 2000, 2(2): 65-72.
5. Yan, Q. S., Huang, S., He, Y. J. et al., Evolution of Holocene sedimentary environment of the Hang-Jia-Hu Plain, in Recent Yangtze Delta Deposits (in Chinese) (eds. Yan Qinshang, Xu Shiyuan), Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 1987, 143-157.
6. Hu, G. T., Yang, W. Y., Engineering Geology (in Chinese), Beijing: Geology Press, 1983, 26.
7. Li, C. X., Zhang, J. Q., Fan, D. D. et al., Holocene regression and the tidal radial sand ridge system formation in the Jiangsu coastal zone, East China, Marine Geology, 2001, 173: 97-120.
8. Zhu, Y. R., Study on the role of tidal currents in the process of formation and evolution of the Changjiang River Delta, Marine Science Bulletin (in Chinese), 1999, 18(2): 1-10.
9. Wang, J. T., Guo, X. M., Xu, S. Y. et al., Evolution of the Holocene Changjiang Delta, Acta Geologica Sinica (in Chinese), 1981, 55(1): 67-81.
10. Shen, H. T., Li, J. F., Zhu, H. F. et al., Characteristics of suspended sediment transportation in Yangtze River mouth, in Process of Dynamics and Geomorphology of the Changjiang Estuary (eds. Chen Jiyu, Shen Huanting, Yun Caixing et al.) (in Chinese), Shanghai: Shanghai Science and Technology Press, 1988, 205-215.
11. Saito, Y., Yang, Z. S., Hori, K., The Huanghe (Yellow River) and Changjiang (Yangtze River) deltas: A review on their characteristics, evolution and sediment discharge during the Holocene, Geomorphology, 2001, 41: 219-231.
12. Li, C. X., Zhang, G. J., Preliminary research on late Quaternary high resolution sequence stratigraphy of the Changjiang Delta, Marine Geology and Quaternary Geology (in Chinese), 1996, 16(3): 13-24.