Highlights of Quaternary geology in China
Author: International Union for Quaternary Research. Congress
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tungsheng Liu
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dongsheng Liu
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Published: 1985-08
Total Pages: 322
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 520
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 158
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Publisher: VSP
Published: 1997-09
Total Pages: 192
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Published: 1985
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Total Pages: 116
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Published: 2009-05-27
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 140209745X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPinxian Wang and Qianyu Li The South China Sea (SCS) (Fig. 1. 1) offers a special attraction for Earth scientists world-wide because of its location and its well-preserved hemipelagic sediments. As the largest one of the marginal seas separating Asia from the Paci?c, the largest continent from the largest ocean, the SCS functions as a focal point in land-sea int- actions of the Earth system. Climatically, the SCS is located between the Western Paci?c Warm Pool, the centre of global heating at the sea level, and the Tibetan Plateau, the centre of heating at an altitude of 5,000m. Geomorphologically, the SCS lies to the east of the highest peak on earth, Zhumulangma or Everest in the Himalayas (8,848m elevation) and to the west of the deepest trench in the ocean, Philippine Trench (10,497m water depth) (Wang P. 2004). Biogeographically, the SCS belongs to the so-called “East Indies Triangle” where modern marine and terrestrial biodiversity reaches a global maximum (Briggs 1999). Among the major marginal sea basins from the west Paci?c, the SCS presents some of the best conditions for accumulating complete paleoclimatic records in its hemipelagic deposits. These records are favorable for high-resolution pa- oceanographic studies because of high sedimentation rates and good carbonate preservation. It may not be merely a coincidence that two cores from the southern 14 SCS were among the ?rst several cores in the world ocean used by AMS C dating for high-resolution stratigraphy (Andree et al. 1986; Broecker et al. 1988).