The history of water salinity in the Pearl River estuary, China, during the late Quaternary

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1221-1233

  Zong, Yongqiang ^a   Yu, Fengling ^b,d   Huang, Guangqing ^c   Lloyd, Jeremy M ^b   Yim, Wyss W S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Deltaic shoreline; Diatoms; Freshwater discharge; Salinity; Sea level change

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; REPAIR; SEA LEVEL; WATER;

DELTAIC SHORELINE; DIATOMS; FRESHWATER DISCHARGE; SALINITY; SEALEVEL CHANGE;

ESTUARIES;

DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; DIATOM; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; INTERGLACIAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; PALEOSALINITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG ESTUARY;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 77955752045     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2030     Document Type: Article

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