✦ LIBER ✦
Yangtze Shoal—a modern tidal sand sheet in the northwestern part of the East China Sea
✍ Scribed by Zhen Xia Liu
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 898 KB
- Volume
- 137
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-3227
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✦ Synopsis
From an analysis of other's data on tidal currents, bedforms, and sediment grain sizes, it is concluded that the Yangtze Shoal in the northwestern East China Sea is a typical modem tidal sand sheet rather than a paleo-Changjiang submarine delta or a relict sedimentary accumulation on the continental shelf formed during a stillstand of the postglacial transgressive sea. The Yangtze Shoal and the Jiangsu offshore tidal ridges of the Subei Shoal to the northwest jointly comprise the active tidal geomorphic system off the Changjiang Estuary.