Nd, Sr isotopes and elemental geochemistry of surface sediments from the South China Sea: Implications for Provenance Tracing

Sensitivity of Sediment Magnetic Records to Climate Change during Holocene for the Northern South China Sea

“…Weathering materials around the study area can be transported by runoff to deposit in the sampling station. Meanwhile, eolian dusts as well as fly ash can be transported by wind to the waters (Liu et al, 2007(Liu et al, , 2008(Liu et al, , 2010Wei et al, 2012). Therefore, the PSD and SP detrital magnetite should be from river input and north Asian eolian particles.…”

Provenance of Upper Miocene to Quaternary sediments in the Yinggehai-Song Hong Basin, South China Sea: Evidence from detrital zircon U–Pb ages

“…Valuable information about sedimentary direction during deposition is gained by reconstructing transport pathways, which provide useful knowledge when trying to locate hydrocarbon exploration targets (Olivarius et al, 2014). Most published works on the provenance of the Y-SH Basin have focused on the heavy minerals, sequence stratigraphic analysis, geochemistry and seismic profiles Wu, 1997;Huang et al, 2003;Yan et al, 2007;Xie et al, 2008;Xie, 2009;Xie and Fan, 2010;Lei et al, 2011;Wei et al, 2012). analyzed the sedimentary facies of the Y-SH Basin and suggested that Offshore Indochina and Hainan were important source areas since Marine Geology 355 (2014) 202-217 Late Miocene.…”

Depositional characteristics of the northern South China Sea in response to the evolution of the Pearl River

“…The Hanjiang River drained a limited area to the northeastern South China Sea in the Oligocene and Miocene ). In the case of recent terrigenous sediments in the northern South China Sea, the main contributors are the Pearl River and the coastal area of South China and Taiwan (Shao et al 2009;Wei et al 2012). To the NE of a line from Hong Kong to the Dongsha Islands, the coastal area of South China and Taiwan exerts a major impact, while to the SW of this line, the Pearl River is the dominant source (Shao et al 2009).…”