Annual lamination and its sedimentary implications in the Yangtze River delta inferred from High-resolution biogenic silica and sensitive grain-size records

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 129-137

  Fan, Dejiang ^a   Qi, Hongyan ^a   Sun, Xiaoxia ^a   Liu, Yong ^a   Yang, Zuosheng ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Annual lamination; Biogenic silica; Seasonal variation; Sedimentary rate; Sensitive grain size fraction; The Yangtze River delta

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CORE ANALYSIS; DELTA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DISCHARGE; FLOODING; GRAIN SIZE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAMINATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SILICA;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 78651449990     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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