Detailed seafloor geomorphology of the western region of the North Yellow Sea, China: The result of Holocene erosional and depositional processes sculpting the offshore continental shelf

Xiaoyu Liu Yilan Chen Chenguang Liu Qiuhua Tang Yanhong Wang Shan Gao

Xiaoyu Liu, Yilan Chen, Chenguang Liu, Qiuhua Tang, Yanhong Wang, Shan Gao. Detailed seafloor geomorphology of the western region of the North Yellow Sea, China: The result of Holocene erosional and depositional processes sculpting the offshore continental shelf[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2022, 41(12): 38-47. doi: 10.1007/s13131-022-2060-y
Citation: Xiaoyu Liu, Yilan Chen, Chenguang Liu, Qiuhua Tang, Yanhong Wang, Shan Gao. Detailed seafloor geomorphology of the western region of the North Yellow Sea, China: The result of Holocene erosional and depositional processes sculpting the offshore continental shelf[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2022, 41(12): 38-47. doi: 10.1007/s13131-022-2060-y

doi: 10.1007/s13131-022-2060-y

Detailed seafloor geomorphology of the western region of the North Yellow Sea, China: The result of Holocene erosional and depositional processes sculpting the offshore continental shelf

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41506069 and 41876111; the Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Marine Surveying and Mapping of the Ministry of Natural Resources under contract No. 2021B01.
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  • Figure  1.  Rivers flowing into the Yellow Sea together with the seawater circulation model (Yang and Liu, 2007; Su and Yuan, 2005; Qiao et al., 2017) (a); mean grain size ($\varPhi $) of seafloor surface sediments in the North Yellow Sea (modified after Wang et al. (2009); Li et al. (2014)) (b). YSWC: Yellow Sea Warm Current; YSCC: Yellow Sea Coastal Current; NYSC: North Yellow Sea Circulation; LCC: Liaonan Coastal Current; BCC: Bohai Coastal Current; YLR: Yalu River; DYR: Dayang River; ZHR: Zhuanghe River; BLR: Biliu River; DSR: Dengsha River; DTR: Datong River; HJR: Hanjiang River; JJR: Jinjiang River; LHR: Luanhe River; HR: Haihe River; HHR: Huanghe River; WHR: Waste Huanghe River; CHJR: Changjiang River.

    Figure  2.  Seafloor topography of the North Yellow Sea. The lines in this figure are water bathymetric contours, and the marked numbers are the corresponding water depth values.

    Figure  3.  Dynamic tidal geomorphological unit off the south coast of the Liaodong Peninsula. This image shows tongue- and mound-shaped subaqueous shoals developed to the southwest of the islands and scouring troughs surrounding the islands. The trend of the subaqueous shoals is consistent with the main current direction.

    Figure  4.  Geomorphological sketch of the seafloor to the south of the Liaodong Peninsula. This image shows the distribution of accumulative shoal, sand ripples and scouring troughs in plan-view.

    Figure  5.  Seismic profile 1. This profile is NW–SE trending. The left side of this profile comprises two subaqueous clinoforms in close proximity, the Guanglu Island shoal and the Haiyang Island shoal, which have been connected as a whole. The right side of this profile extends towards the SE and reaches the shelf plain in the central region of the North Yellow Sea.

    Figure  6.  Three-dimensional schematic representation of subaqueous sand ripples. The location of this image is shown in Fig. 4.

    Figure  7.  Three-dimensional topographical surface of deep tidal-scour troughs in the Laotieshan Channel and erosional troughs on its southeast side.

    Figure  8.  Seismic profile 2. This profile passes from southwest to northeast through the northwest end of the shelf plain in the central region of the North Yellow Sea and the tidal accumulative shoal off the Changshan Archipelago.

    Figure  9.  Three-dimensional topographical surface of the pockmark field.

    Figure  10.  Accumulative shoal (mud wedge) around the Shandong Peninsula. This image shows that the mud shoal platform wraps around the eastern end of the Shandong Peninsula, extends from the Bohai Strait to Chengshantou, and turns to southwards into the South Yellow Sea. The overall trend of the subaqueous shoal is consistent with the coastal current.

    Figure  11.  Seismic profile 3. This profile runs from the mud wedge accumulations off the northern Shandong Peninsula and passes from southwest to northeast through the shelf accumulative plain in the mid-west region of the North Yellow Sea, before extending to the Changshan Archipelago.

    Figure  12.  Geomorphological map of the North Yellow Sea (NYS). This map was compiled by referring to existing geomorphological maps (Lin, 1989; Geng, 1981; Liu et al., 2005; Cai, 2013; Li et al., 2020); the data obtained herein were used in the construction of the western part of the NYS.

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