Persistent effects of the Yellow River on the Chinese marginal seas began at least ~880 ka ago

Abstract The Yellow River (or Huanghe and also known as China’s Sorrow in ancient times), with the highest sediment load in the world, provides a key link between continental erosion and sediment accumulation in the western Pacific Ocean. However, the exact age of its influence on the marginal sea i...

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Main Authors: Zhengquan Yao, Xuefa Shi, Shuqing Qiao, Qingsong Liu, Selvaraj Kandasamy, Jianxing Liu, Yanguang Liu, Jihua Liu, Xisheng Fang, Jingjing Gao, Yanguang Dou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03140-x