Quaternary mud deposits on the Korean shelf—processes, facies, stratigraphy: an introduction and future challenges

Abstract

On the Korean and adjacent Chinese epicontinental shelves of the Yellow Sea, a variety of mud deposits occur that all formed during the late Quaternary. The available evidence suggests that they were generated by different processes in different water depths and at different times. Over the last three decades, numerous studies have revealed the largescale features and stratigraphic evolution histories of some of these mud deposits, but the nature of the deposits as such and, in particular,