Sedimentary records of natural and artificial Huanghe (Yellow River) channel shifts during the Holocene in the southern Bohai Sea

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1336-1342

  Qiao, Shuqing ^a   Shi, Xuefa ^a   Saito, Yoshiki ^b   Li, Xiaoyan ^a   Yu, Yonggui ^a   Bai, Yazhi ^a   Liu, Yanguang ^a   Wang, Kunshan ^a   Yang, Gang ^a  

^a FIRST INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bohai Sea; Holocene; Huanghe (Yellow River); Huanghe delta; Sedimentary environment

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EROSION; COLOR; CORE ANALYSIS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DIFFRACTION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

BOHAI SEA; CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; YELLOW RIVER; YELLOW SEA;

EID: 79960364986     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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