The role of sea-level rise, monsoonal discharge and the palaeo-landscape in the early Holocene evolution of the Pearl River delta, southern China

• Main Authors: Zong, Yongqiang, Huang, Kangyou, Yu, Fengling, Zheng, Zhuo, Switzer, Adam D., Huang, Guangqing, Wang, Ning, Tang, Min
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97325; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10492
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The early Holocene history of the Pearl River delta is reconstructed based on a series of sediment cores obtained from one of the main palaeo-valleys in the basin. Sedimentary and microfossil diatom analyses combined with radiocarbon dating provide new evidence for the interactions between sea-level...