Oceanographical and Geological Background -- Stratigraphy and Sea Level Changes -- Sedimentology -- Upper Water Structure and Paleo-Monsoon5 -- Deep Waters and Oceanic Connection -- Biogeochemistry and the Carbon Reservoir -- History of the South China Sea -- A Synthesis
Summary
A synthesis of sedimentary geology and paleoceanography of the South China Sea on the basis of extensive industrial explorations and scientific expeditions culminated with the ODP Leg 184. It offers knowledge about the history of this largest marginal sea in the West Pacific, deep-sea records of evolution and variations of the East Asian monsoon
