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SUBMITTER: Liu JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5844877 | biostudies-other | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Liu James T JT Hsu Ray T RT Yang Rick J RJ Wang Ya Ping YP Wu Hui H Du Xiaoqin X Li Anchun A Chien Steven C SC Lee Jay J Yang Shouye S Zhu Jianrong J Su Chih-Chieh CC Chang Yi Y Huh Chih-An CA
Scientific reports 20180309 1
Globally mud areas on continental shelves are conduits for the dispersal of fluvial-sourced sediment. We address fundamental issues in sediment dynamics focusing on how mud is retained on the seabed on shallow inner shelves and what are the sources of mud. Through a process-based comprehensive study that integrates dynamics, provenance, and sedimentology, here we show that the key mechanism to keep mud on the seabed is the water-column stratification that forms a dynamic barrier in the vertical ...[more]