Sedimentary biogeochemistry and palaeoceanography of the South China Sea during the late Pleistocene

• Main Author: Kienast, Markus
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Greenland; Pacific; Sunda; Greenland Ice Sheet Project; ice core; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13541

The South China Sea (SCS) is the largest marginal basin off the Asian continent and its surface hydrography as well as sedimentation within the basin are strongly influenced by the SE Asian monsoon and eustatic sea-level changes. The rapidly accumulating sediments in this basin are therefore a uniqu...