The history of water salinity in the Pearl River estuary, China, during the Late Quaternary

• Main Authors: Lloyd, Jeremy M., Yim, Wyss W. S., Zong, Yongqiang, Yu, Fengling, Huang, Guangqing
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95070; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8805
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This research reconstructed the Late Quaternary salinity history of the Pearl River estuary, China, from diatom records of four sedimentary cores. The reconstruction was produced through the application of a diatom–salinity transfer function developed based on 77 modern surface sediment samples coll...