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CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH
Volume 90, Issue -, Pages 117-132Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2014.06.012
Keywords
Holocene transgression; Paleotopography; Fluvial sediment; Bohai Sea; North Yellow Sea; Yellow River delta
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41330964, 41240022]
- China Geological Survey [1212011120172, 1212010611402]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2005CB422304]
- Marine Safeguard Project [GZH201200503]
- '100 Talent Program' of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Paleotopography of the Yellow River (Huanghe) delta area and the western Bohai Sea during the last glacial maximum (LGM) is important to understand fluvial activities of the Yellow River linked with the LGM climate. By integrating data sets of both onshore and offshore borehole cores and offshore high-resolution seismic profiles, we reconstructed the paleotopography of this area from the LGM to the early Holocene. The fluvial sediment fades of the LGM identified in these cores was characterized by poorly sorted medium- to coarse-grained sands, which shows chaotic patterns in seismic profiles. REE characteristics and clay mineral components of the fluvial sediments suggest that they were derived mostly from the paleo-Yellow River. The basal and top bounding surfaces of the fluvial sediments slope very gently toward the northeast, similar to the present morphology of the North China Plain formed by the Yellow River. No incised valley morphology is detected in the basal topography, because of the long distance from the study area to the paleoshoreline during the LGM, and also because of the very gentle gradient of the paleo-Yellow River from the northern part of North China Plain to the continental shelf area, with concave-upward morphology. Aggradational stacking of the fluvial sediments over the entire North China Plain and in the study area indicates that the Yellow River flowed in these areas during the LGM to the early Holocene. The Holocene marine and coastal sediments onlap onto the underlying fluvial sediments. These basal marine or brackish sediments are diachronous from offshore areas of the Bohai Sea to the Yellow River delta area, with older sediments in the east and younger sediments in the west, which clearly reflects the early Holocene marine transgression from the North Yellow Sea to the Bohai Sea. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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