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Discharge of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) into the East China Sea
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In this article, the spatial and temporal structure of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) discharge over the inner and mid continental shelf off eastern China has been analyzed using hydrographic and current meter data collected during June 1980, August 1981, and November 1981.About:
This article is published in Continental Shelf Research.The article was published on 1985-01-01. It has received 584 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bottom water & Continental shelf.read more
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Flux and fate of Yangtze River sediment delivered to the East China Sea
TL;DR: In this paper, high-resolution seismic profiling and coring in the southern East China Sea during 2003 and 2004 cruises has revealed an elongated (similar to 800 km) distal subaqueous mud wedge extending from the Yangtze River mouth southward off the Zhejiang and Fujian coasts into the Taiwan Strait.
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Sedimentary features of the Yangtze River-derived along-shelf clinoform deposit in the East China Sea
TL;DR: A predominant sigmoidal clinoform deposit extends from the Yangtze River mouth southwards 800 kin along the Chinese coast, reaching water depths of 60 and 90 m and distances up to 100 km offshore as mentioned in this paper.
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The Huanghe (Yellow River) and Changjiang (Yangtze River) deltas: a review on their characteristics, evolution and sediment discharge during the Holocene
TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics, evolution and sediment discharge during the Holocene of the deltas of two large Chinese rivers, Huanghe (Yellow River) and Changjiang (Yangtze River) are summarized.
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The Current System in the Yellow and East China Seas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used satellite-tracked surface drifters to study the current system in the Yellow and East China Seas and found that in winter the Tsushima Warm Current has a single source, the Kuroshio Branch Current in the west of Kyushu, which transports a mixture of Kuroshiso Water and Changjiang River Diluted Water northward.
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Sediment accumulation in a modern epicontinental-shelf setting: The Yellow Sea
TL;DR: In this paper, sediment accumulation in the Yellow Sea epicontinental-shelf environment was investigated on 100-yr and 1000-yr time scales using 210Pb and 14C geochronologies.
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Sediments of shallow portions of east china sea and south china sea
TL;DR: In this paper, bottom samples from the shallow portions of the East China and South China seas were studied and compared with source areas and oceanographic conditions, and the results indicated that the shelf sediments are similar in most respects to those on the continental shelf of California, and they clearly indicate deposition below present base levels of equilibrium.
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Modern Huanghe-derived muds on the outer shelf of the East China Sea: identification and potential transport mechanisms
TL;DR: In this article, Radiometric dating suggests that at least the surface of this mud deposit is contemporaneous, although the rate of accumulation may be slow, and part of the sediment may be derived from present-day erosion of the ancient Huanghe submarine delta off Jiangsu Province.
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Geostrophic fronts, bores, breaking and blocking waves
TL;DR: In this article, an undisturbed geostrophic density current flows along a vertical wall (the coast) with the free streamline (the front) located at a distance L from the wall which is comparable to the Rossby radius of deformation.
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A simple theoretical model for the flow of an estuary onto a continental shelf
Robert C. Beardsley,John Hart +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a simple theoretical model is developed to describe the steady flow of an estuary onto an adjacent continental shelf, and the fluid motion is driven by the positive (upper layer) and negative (lower layer) mass fluxes associated with a pair of point sources located at the mouth of the estuary.
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A note on circulation of the East China Sea
Guan Bingxian,Mao Hanli +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered two types of current system and hence two different water systems may further be sub-divided into six original water masses: 1) Coastal Water (of the East China Sea); 2) Huanghai Sea (Cold) Water mass; 3) Kuroshio Surface Water mass, 4) Kuro Shio Subsurface Water mass (SSW), 5) Kuro SHW intermediate water mass, and 6) KuroShio Deep and Bottom Water mass.