Clay minerals in surface sediments of the Pearl River drainage basin and their contribution to the South China Sea

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 1101-1111 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZhiFei Liu ◽  
Christophe Colin ◽  
Wei Huang ◽  
Zhong Chen ◽  
Alain Trentesaux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Clay Minerals ◽  
South China ◽  
Surface Sediments ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
River Drainage Basin

DISTRIBUTION OF THE CLAY MINERALS IN SURFACE SEDIMENTS OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA AND THEIR PROVENANCE

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian GE ◽  
Fengyou CHU ◽  
Jingpu LIU ◽  
Yuansheng DU ◽  
Zuo XUE ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
Clay Minerals ◽  
South China ◽  
Surface Sediments ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
China Sea

scholarly journals Reconstruction of the track and a simulation of the storm surge associated with the calamitous typhoon affecting the Pearl River Estuary in September 1874

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Hing Yim Mok ◽  
Wing Hong Lui ◽  
Dick Shum Lau ◽  
Wang Chun Woo
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South China Sea ◽  
Storm Surge ◽  
South China ◽  
River Estuary ◽  
Pearl River Estuary ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
The Pearl River Estuary ◽  
The Pearl River

Abstract. A typhoon struck the Pearl River Estuary in September 1874 (“Typhoon 1874”), causing extensive damage and claiming thousands of lives in the region during its passage. Like many other historical typhoons, the deadliest impact of the typhoon was its associated storm surge. In this paper, a possible track of the typhoon was reconstructed through an analysis of the historical qualitative and quantitative weather observations in the Philippines, the northern part of the South China Sea, Hong Kong, Macao, and Guangdong recorded in various historical documents. The magnitudes of the associated storm surges and storm tides in Hong Kong and Macao were also quantitatively estimated using storm surge model and analogue astronomical tides based on the reconstructed track. The results indicated that the typhoon could have crossed the Luzon Strait from the western North Pacific and moved across the northeastern part of the South China Sea to strike the Pearl River Estuary more or less as a super typhoon in the early morning on 23 September 1874. The typhoon passed about 60 km south–southwest of Hong Kong and made landfall in Macao, bringing maximum storm tides of around 4.9 m above the Hong Kong Chart Datum (http://www.geodetic.gov.hk/smo/gsi/Data/pdf/explanatorynotes.pdf, last access: 3 January 2020) at the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong and around 5.4 m above the Macao Chart Datum (https://mosref.dscc.gov.mo/Help/ref/Macaucoord_2009_web_EN_v201702.pdf, last access: 3 January 2020) at Porto Interior (inner harbour) in Macao. Both the maximum storm tide (4.88 m above the Hong Kong Chart Datum) and maximum storm surge (2.83 m) brought by Typhoon 1874 at the Victoria Harbour estimated in this study are higher than all the existing records since the establishment of the Hong Kong Observatory in 1883, including the recent records set by super typhoon Mangkhut on 16 September 2018.

Impacts of land use and water quality on macroinvertebrate communities in the Pearl River drainage basin, China

Hydrobiologia ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 652 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yixin Zhang ◽  
David Dudgeon ◽  
Dongsheng Cheng ◽  
Wai Thoe ◽  
Lincoln Fok ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Pearl River ◽  
Macroinvertebrate Communities ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
The Pearl River ◽  
River Drainage Basin
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