Preliminary Study of Holocene Huaihe River Delta on West Coastal Plain of Yellow Sea, China

• 责任者：Xue Chunting (Key Laboratory of Marine Hydrocarbon Resources and Environmental Geology ; Ministry of Land and Resources ; Qingdao266071 ; China) ; Liu Jian
• 刊名：Quaternary Sciences
• 出版年：2010
• 卷期：30(5)
• 关键词：三角洲 ; deltas ; 淮河 ; Huaihe River
• 页码：p.892-901
• 索书号：P515.206/633-4
• 图表：4 illus., 37 refs.
• 分类号：1400
• issnNo：ISSN1001-7410
• isbnNo：CN11-2708/P

The Huaihe River was a big one in East China entering the Yellow Sea before 1128 A.D. It became a tributary of the Yellow River in 1128～1851 because the Yellow River lower channel greatly shifted to south and occupied the original Huaihe River channel. The Huaihe River has been a tributary of the Yangtze River since 1851, although the Yellow River changed its lower channel in 1855 and has been entered the Bohai Sea. Therefore the Huaihe River Delta is a historical delta formed in 7000 a B.P.～1128 A.D. in the North Jiangsu Plain. It is estimated that the water discharge of the Huaihe River is 497×10⁸  m³, the suspended sediments with median size of 0.05 mm entering the Yellow Sea transported by the Huaihe River were approximately from 950×10⁴ t/a in 7000 a B.P. increasing to 1 900×10⁴t/a in 1128 A.D. based on the published data on the Holocene sedimentation in North Jiangsu the form, sedimentation and evolution of the Huaihe River Delta are studied in this paper.