Initiation of the Changjiang (Yangtze) delta and its response to the mid-Holocene sea level change

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 388, Issue , 2013, Pages 81-97

  Song, Bing ^a   Li, Zhen ^a,d   Saito, Yoshiki ^b   Okuno, Jun'ichi ^c   Lu, Anqing ^a   Hua, Di ^a   Li, Jie ^a,e   Li, Yongxiang ^f   Nakashima, Rei ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Yunnan Institute of Environmental Science   (China)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Changjiang (Yangtze) delta; Delta initiation; Holocene; Sea level change; Sedimentary facies

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; BRACKISH WATER; DELTA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FACIES; FLOODING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SAND; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE;

CHINA; JIANGSU; NANJING [JIANGSU]; YANGTZE DELTA; YIZHENG;

EID: 84883220680     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.07.026     Document Type: Article

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