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New interpretation on the provenance changes of the upper **hu-lower Huagang Formation within **hu Depression, East China Sea Shelf Basin
Both **hu and Huagang formations are important hydrocarbon reservoirs of the **hu Depression in the East China Sea Shelf Basin. Clarifying the source suppliers and restoring source-to-sink transport routes a...
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Early Cenozoic paleontological assemblages and provenance evolution of the Lishui Sag, East China Sea
The East China Sea Shelf Basin generated a series of back-arc basins with thick successions of marine- and terrestrial-facies sediments during Cenozoic. It is enriched with abundant oil and gas resources and i...
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Late Eocene—early Miocene provenance evolution of the Crocker Fan in the southern South China Sea
There are many large-scale Cenozoic sedimentary basins with plentiful river deltas, deep-water fans and carbonate platforms in the southern South China Sea. The Crocker Fan was deposited as a typical submarine...
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Sediment source and environment evolution in Taiwan Island during the Eocene-Miocene
Taiwan Island’s outcrop** strata can provide important insights into the sedimentary environment and source development of the southeast China margin. This research is based on the Eocene-Miocene strata of t...
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Reinterpretation of the northern South China Sea pre-Cenozoic basement and geodynamic implications of the South China continent: constraints from combined geological and geophysical records
The pre-Cenozoic northern South China Sea (SCS) Basin basement was supposed to exist as a complex of heterogeneous segments, divided by dozens of N–S faulting. Unfortunately, only the Hainan Island and the nor...
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Upper Miocene–Pliocene provenance evolution of the Central Canyon in northwestern South China Sea
Provenance studies of the Central Canyon, Qiongdongnan Basin has provided significant insights into paleographic and sedimentology research of the South China Sea (SCS). A suite of geochemical approaches mainl...
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The B/Ca and Cd/Ca of a subsurface-dwelling foraminifera Pulleniatina obliquiloculata in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean: implications for the subsurface carbonate chemistry estimation
Pulleniatina obliquiloculata shells from 16 core-top samples from the tropical Indo-Pacific Oceans are analyzed for the ratios of boron and cadmium to calcium (B/Ca and Cd/Ca). The B/Ca ratios show a very weak po...
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Geochemical characteristics of Oligocene-Miocene sediments from the deepwater area of the northern South China Sea and their provenance implications
Geochemical and detrital zircon U-Pb dating data for drilled sediments from the Baiyun deepwater area of the northern South China Sea demonstrate a change of sedimentary sources from the Oligocene to the Mioce...
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Seasonal variations in planktonic foraminiferal flux and the chemical properties of their shells in the southern South China Sea
Results from sediment trap experiments conducted in the southern South China Sea from May 2004 to March 2006 revealed significant monsoon-induced seasonal variations in flux and shell geochemistry of planktoni...
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Nd isotopic variations and its implications in the recent sediments from the northern South China Sea
The chondrite-normalized REE distribution patterns in recent sediments from the northern South China Sea and surrounding areas are similar, with the HREE values being almost equal to or slightly higher, and th...
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Late Oligocene sedimentary environments and provenance abrupt change event in the northern South China Sea
A significant change in composition was recorded in late Oligocene sediments from the northern South China Sea. This abrupt event coincided with the seafloor spreading axis jump across the Oligocene/Miocene bo...
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Deep water bottom current deposition in the northern South China Sea
There are some active bottom currents on the northern continental slope of the South China Sea (SCS). Reflection seismic profiles show that the bottom current channels occur in the water depth range of 1000 to...