In various regions along the east and southeast coast of China and on the outer shelf of the East China Sea, series of cheniers have been found and studied. Their geomorphological and sedimentological features have been described and the main conditions for their formation established.
The development of cheniers in China can be divided into three periods: 24,000-15,000 yrs B.P., 7000-5000 yrs B.P. and 5000 yrs B.P. onwards. These periods have been based on 14C datings of 80 shell samples. The chenier groups of the three periods are distributed throughout various geomorphological locations.
Using the geomorphological locations of the cheniers in combination with their age of formation, the palaeopositions of the Chinese coastline in the various periods since 24,000 yrs B.P. are described. The history of the position of the east coast of China, including the features attesting to sealevel changes during this era, is briefly discussed. 相似文献
Daily Arctic sea-ice motion maps during the winter seasons (December–March) from December 1988 to March 2003 derived from
NSCAT, QuikSCAT, SSM/I, and AMSRE data by a wavelet analysis method have been merged with those derived from buoy data. These
merged sea-ice motion data have been used to study the circulation regimes and winter-to-winter variability of Arctic sea-ice
motion. The relation between sea-ice motion and the pressure field in the Arctic Ocean was also studied by applying Principal
Component Analysis (PCA) to the monthly merged sea-ice motion data and the monthly pressure field data from IABP. The mean
Arctic sea-ice motion map of the 15 winter seasons has two distinct features: the Beaufort Gyre and a cyclonic circulation
system in the Eurasian Basin, which moves ice from the Laptev Sea to Fram Strait. The strengths and sizes of the two features
change from one winter season to another. Seasons with a strong or normal Beaufort Gyre alternate with seasons with a weak
or no Beaufort Gyre every one to three seasons. The principal components of the first two modes of PCA of the monthly sea-ice
motion are closely correlated with their counterparts of the monthly pressure field in the Arctic Ocean. The mode-one components
of these two anomalies alternate between anticyclonic and cyclonic circulation systems. The correlation between Arctic Oscillation
indexes and the principal components of the first mode of PCA of the monthly Arctic sea-ice motion is low but statistically
significant. 相似文献
The gravity-geologic method (GGM) was used to enhance the bathymetry of the East Sea (Sea of Japan) with satellite altimetry-derived
free-air gravity anomalies and shipborne depth measurements. By comparison with the bathymetry model of Smith and Sandwell’s
(SAS) approach (1994), GGM was found to have an advantage with short wavelength (≤12 km) components, while SAS better predicts
longer wavelength (≥25 km) components, despite its dependency on density contrast. To mitigate this limitation, a tuning density
contrast of 10.25 g/cm3 between seawater and the seafloor was primarily estimated by the downward continuation method and then validated by the check
points method with GGM. Similarly, SAS is limited by the “A” value in low-pass part of the Wiener filter, which defines the effective range of the wavelength components on bathymetry.
As a final result, we present an enhanced GGM bathymetry model by integrating all available data. 相似文献