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Sea-level changes controlled detrital sediment inputs to the Bicol Shelf in the western Philippine Sea since 150 ka

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Detrital sediments derived from the Philippine Islands are one of the main sources of deep-sea sediments in the western Philippine Sea. However, systematic research on their characteristics and transport mechanisms are lacking. We used parametric end-member analysis to quantitatively partition the grain size of detrital sediments in core MD06-3052 from the Bicol Shelf in the western Philippine Sea; three end-members EM1, EM2, and EM3, whose respective modes were at 2, 10, and 45 µm, were separated. We also measured the Sr and Nd isotopic compositions of different size fractions (<4 and >20 µm) of the detrital sediments and the results showed that the detrital sediments mainly originate from the Philippine Islands. Components EM1 and EM2 are transported to the Bicol Shelf mainly by surface and bottom currents from the islands, and component EM3 is delivered by gravity flow from the exposed shelf during low sea-level stands. The content of the total detrital fraction and the three end-members, as well as the mass accumulation rates (MARs) of the coarse detritus (EM2 and EM3), were considerably higher during glacial periods (40–14 ka and 150–130 ka) than during other intervals; the glacials corresponded to a low sea level, while the MAR of the fine detritus (EM1) did not increase remarkably during 40–14 ka. We therefore concluded that the input of coarse detritus to the Bicol Shelf from the islands was mainly controlled by sea-level change. Variations of the input of fine-grained detritus (EM1) was influenced not only by sea level but also by ocean currents and regional precipitation. Overall, our results help understand “source-to-sink” processes in the western Pacific marginal seas and their response to global change.

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Acknowledgment

The samples used in this study were collected by the “China-France” international cooperation cruise MD155-Marco Polo 2/IMAGES XIV. The authors thank all of the shipboard scientists and crew members of R/V Marion Dufresne. We also acknowledge WANG Hongli, ZHU **ao, and ZHOU Ye for their help with grain-size measurements and data analysis. Finally, the authors wish to thank Dr. Richard Hiscott and another anonymous reviewer for thorough and constructive comments on the original manuscript, by which it was greatly improved.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Marine Geology and Environment, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Zhishun Zhang, Fuqing Jiang & Yu Yan

  2. Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Zhishun Zhang, Fuqing Jiang & Yu Yan

  3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100049, China

    Zhishun Zhang & Yu Yan

  4. Laboratory for Marine Geology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China

    Fuqing Jiang, Tiegang Li, Dezhou Yang & Zhifang **ong

  5. Key Laboratory of Marine Sedimentology and Environmental Geology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, 266061, China

    Tiegang Li, Zhifang **ong & Qi Jia

  6. Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Dezhou Yang

  7. School of Marine Science and Environment, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, 116023, China

    **ao**g Zhou

  8. No. 1 Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of Shandong Province, **an, 250014, China

    **aohua Qiu

  9. School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nan**g University, Nan**g, 210023, China

    Xuguang Feng

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41776065, 41576050, 41830539), the Basic Scientific Fund for National Public Research Institutes of China (Nos. 2019S04, 2017Y07), the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDB42000000), and the Open Fund of Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (No. QNLM2016ORP0205)

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Zhang, Z., Jiang, F., Li, T. et al. Sea-level changes controlled detrital sediment inputs to the Bicol Shelf in the western Philippine Sea since 150 ka. J. Ocean. Limnol. 38, 1153–1168 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-020-0051-4

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