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Clinical Investigation

Sedimentology Review Journals

 Marine geology in China started from sedimentology within the 1950s, mainly on deltas and coastal sediments. It had been not until the top of the “cultural revolution” within the late 1970s, however, when China's earth scientists were ready to start systematic researches of shallow shelf depositions also as deltas. From then on, many institutional and inter institutional projects, sometimes with international collaborations on marine geology survey generally and on marine sedimentology especially,were administered , leading to the publication of various sediment atlases and monographs since the 1980s. Most of those publications are in Chinese, including such landmark works as “Geology of the Bohai Sea,” “Geology of the Yellow Sea ,” and “Geology of the East China Sea” (Qin, 1985, 1989; Qin, Zhao, & Chen, 1988), all with a stress on marine sedimentology. Subsequent offshore oil and gas exploration and deep-sea research into the South China Sea and therefore the Okinawa Trough have stimulated further development of marine sedimentology in China (He, 2006). a serious shift from the old-fashioned descriptive stage occurred after the 1990s when systematic and genetic approach toward “source to sink” processes became the most trend in Chinese sedimentologic studies. Lying within the dynamic land–sea interaction center of the marginal western Pacific, the China Seas accumulate voluminous sediments weathered from neighboring landmasses. Clay and sand discharged from rivers constitute the most a part of the sediments deposited on the seafloor. Thanks to their vast geographic coverage, the China Seas feature distinctive regional patterns of sedimentation, as outlined during this chapter.  

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