Geochemical composition of inner shelf Quaternary sediments in the northern South China Sea with implications for provenance discrimination and paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 60, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 207-221

  Yang, Shouye ^a   Yim, Wyss W S ^b   Huang, Guangqing ^c  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

continental shelf; East Asian Monsoon; geochemical composition; Hong Kong; paleoenvironmental change; provenance discrimination; Quaternary; South China Sea

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; GRAIN SIZE; GRANITOID; HOLOCENE; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGDONG; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; ZHUJIANG;

EID: 38349146191     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.02.005     Document Type: Article

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