Mineral provinces and material provenance of the surficial sediments near the Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea

	Mineral provinces and material provenance of the surficial sediments near the Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea
	Yan Quanshu ; Shi Xuefa ; Wang Kunshan
刊名	ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA
	2007
卷号	26 期号:1 页码:66-76
关键词	South China Sea Zhongsha Islands light mineral minerals province material provenance
ISSN号	0253-505X
英文摘要	Characteristics and distribution patterns of elastic minerals (0.063 similar to 0.125 mm) in bottom sediments represent a significant indicator for the identification of the origin of sediment. One hundred and fourteen surface sediment samples, which were collected from the area near the Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea, were analysed to identify the mineral suites and their distributions in the study area. The area can be divided into three mineral provinces: ( I) a province of biogenic minerals, which mainly originate from the Zhongsha Atoll; ( H) a province of volcanogenic minerals, which are mainly derived from local basaltic seamounts and small-scale volcanoes that are probably erupting, with some influences from the island-are volcanic region around the South China Sea; and (II) a mixed mineral province whose material source includes biogenic minerals, volcanogenic minerals and terrigenous minerals; the last province can be subdivided into a mixed mineral sub-province of the northeastern part of the study area, in which terrigenous minerals are mainly derived from China's Mainland and do not exceed 17 degrees N, and a mixed mineral sub-province of the southeastern part of the study area, in which terrigenous minerals are derived from Kalimantan and Indochina Peninsula and might be further transported into the deep sea basin through submarine canyons.
WOS研究方向	Oceanography
语种	英语
出版者	SPRINGER
WOS记录号	WOS:000244330100007
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.fio.com.cn:8080/handle/2SI8HI0U/26775]
专题	自然资源部第一海洋研究所
通讯作者	Shi Xuefa
作者单位	1.State Ocean Adm, Inst Oceanog 1, Key Lab Marine Sedimentol & Environm Geol, Qingdao 266061, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, Qingdao 266071, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Sch, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yan Quanshu,Shi Xuefa,Wang Kunshan. Mineral provinces and material provenance of the surficial sediments near the Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea[J]. ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA,2007,26(1):66-76.
APA	Yan Quanshu,Shi Xuefa,&Wang Kunshan.(2007).Mineral provinces and material provenance of the surficial sediments near the Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea.ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA,26(1),66-76.
MLA	Yan Quanshu,et al."Mineral provinces and material provenance of the surficial sediments near the Zhongsha Islands in the South China Sea".ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA 26.1(2007):66-76.