Sediment Budget in the Taiwan Strait with High Fluvial Sediment Inputs from Mountainous Rivers: New Observations and Synthesis

The shallow Taiwan Strait at the southern opening of the East China Sea (ECS) receives abundant sediments from turbid mountainous rivers in Taiwan. The volume of sediment is among the highest sediment yields on the global surface. This large amount of sediment discharged from modern Taiwan (range: 1...

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Published in:	Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Main Authors:	Shuh-Ji Kao, Sen Jan, Shih-Chieh Hsu, Tsung-You Lee, and Minhan Dai
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Springer 2008-01-01
Subjects:	geophysics geology atmospheric science space science oceanic science hydrology
Online Access:	http://tao.cgu.org.tw/pdf/v195p525.pdf