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Geol. Soc. London Special Publication | Marine Geology | AGU Geophysical Monograph | Marine Micropaleonotology | Science in China

Boulay, S., Colin, C., Trentesaux, A., Frank, N., and Liu, Z., 2005. Sediment sources and East Asian monsoon intensity over the last 450 ky. Mineralogical and geochemical investigations on South China Sea sediments. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 228:260-277. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.06.005

Cleaveland, L.C., and Herbert, T.D., 2007. Coherent obliquity band and heterogeneous precession band responses in early Pleistocene tropical sea surface temperatures. Paleoceanography, 22:PA2216. doi:10.1029/2006PA001370

Clift, P., Lee, J.I., Blusztajn, J., and Clark, M.K., submitted. Erosional response of South China to arc rifting and monsoonal strengthening recorded in the South China Sea. Mar. Geol.

Clift, P., and Lin, J., 2001. Preferential mantle lithospheric extension under the South China margin. Mar. Pet. Geol., 18:929-945. doi:10.1016/S0264-8172(01)00037-X

Clift, P., Lin, J., and Barckhausen, U., 2002. Evidence of low flexural rigidity and low viscosity lower continental crust during continental break-up in the South China Sea. Mar. Pet. Geol., 19:951-970. doi:10.1016/S0264-8172(02)00108-3

Diester-Haass, L., Billups, K., and Emeis, K.C., 2006. Late Miocene carbon isotope records and marine biological productivity: Was there a (dusty) link? Paleoceanography, 21:PA4216. doi:10.1029/2006PA001267

Fang, N.-Q., Ding, X., Liu, Y.-Q., Hu, C.-Y., Chen, X.-F., and Zhang, Z.-F., 2002. Pelagic sedimentary records of the Ninetyeast Ridge and the Late Cenozoic important tectono-environmental events. Dixue Qianyuan [Earth Sci. Front.], 9:103-111.

Hayward, B.W., Kawagata, S., Grenfell, H.R., Sabaa, A.T., and O'Neill, T., 2007. Last global extinction in the deep sea during the mid-Pleistocene climate transition. Paleoceanography, 22:PA3103. doi:10.1029/2007PA001424

Huang, B., Cheng, X., Jian, Z., and Wang, P., 2003. Response of upper ocean structure to the initiation of the North Hemisphere glaciation in the South China Sea. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 196:305-318. doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00458-9

Jia, G., Peng, P., Zhao, Q., and Jian, Z., 2003. Changes in terrestrial ecosystem since 30 Ma in East Asia; stable isotope evidence from black carbon in the South China Sea. Geology, 31:1093-1096. doi:10.1130/G19992.1

Jian, Z., Zhao, Q., Cheng, X., Wang, J., Wang, P., and Su, X., 2003. Pliocene-Pleistocene stable isotope and paleoceanographic changes in the northern South China Sea. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 193:425-442. doi:10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00259-1

Kienast, M., Higginson, M.J., Mollenhauer, G., Eglinton, T.I., Chen, M.-T., and Calvert, S.E., 2005. On the sedimentological origin of down-core variations of bulk sedimentary nitrogen isotope ratios. Paleoceanography, 20. doi:10.1029/2004PA001081

Kuhnt, W., Holbourn, A., and Zhao, Q., 2002. The early history of the South China Sea: evolution of Oligocene-Miocene deep water environments. Rev. Micropaleontol., 45:99-159.

Lee, M.-Y., Chen, C.-H., Wei, K.-Y., Iizuka, Y., and Carey, S., 2004. First Toba supereruption revival. Geology,, 32:61-64. doi:10.1130/G19903.1

Li, B., Jian, Z., Li, Q., Tian, J., and Wang, P., submitted. Oceanography of the South China Sea since the middle Miocene: evidence from planktonic foraminifera. Mar. Micropalaeontol.

Li, Q., Li, B., Zhong, G., McGowran, B., Zhou, Z., Wang, J., and Wang, P., 2006. Late Miocene development of the western Pacific warm pool: planktonic foraminifer and oxygen isotopic evidence. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 237:465-482. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.12.019

Li, B., Wang, J., Huang, B., Li, Q., Jian, Z., Zhao, Q., Su, X., and Wang, P., 2004. South China Sea surface water evolution over the last 12 Myr: a south-north comparison from Ocean Drilling Program Sites 1143 and 1146. Paleoceanography, 19. doi:10.1029/2003PA000906

Li, X.-H., Wei, G., Shao, L., Liu, Y., Liang, X., Jian, Z., Sun, M., and Wang, P., 2003. Geochemical and Nd isotopic variations in sediments of the South China Sea: a response to Cenozoic tectonism in SE Asia. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 211:207-220. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00229-2

Liu, Z., Tian, J., Xu, J., Wang, P., Zhao, Q., and Andersson, C., submitted. High-resolution carbonate records from the South China Sea tectonic/orbital forcing over the past 5 million years. Paleoceanography.

Mao, S., Wu, G., and Li, J., submitted. Oligocene-early Miocene environmental evolution of the northern South China Sea—an interpretation based on palynological evidence from Site 1148, Leg 184. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol.

McIntyre, K., and Oppo, D.W., submitted. Suborbital scale climate change: insights from a d18O record from the norhtern South China Sea. Paleoceanography.

Oppo, D.W., and Youbin, S., 2005. Amplitude and timing of sea-surface temperature change in the northern South China Sea: dynamic link to the East Asian monsoon. Geology, 33:785-788. doi:10.1130/G21867.1

Tian, J., Wang P.X., Cheng R.H, and Cheng X.R., 2005. Quaternary upper ocean thermal gradient variations in the South China Sea: implications for east Asian monsoon climate. Paleoceanography, 20. doi:10.1029/2004PA001115

Tian, J., Wang, P., and Cheng, X., 2004. Development of the East Asian monsoon and Northern Hemisphere glaciation: oxygen isotope records from the South China Sea. Quat. Sci. Rev., 23:2007-2016. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.02.013

Tian, J., Wang, P., and Cheng, X., 2004. Pleistocene precession forcing of the upper ocean structure variations of the southern China Sea. Prog. Nat. Sci., 14:1004-1009.

Tian, J., Wang, P., and Cheng, X., 2004. Responses of foraminiferal isotopic variations at ODP Site 1143 in the southern China Sea to orbital forcing. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci., 47:943-953.

Tian, J., Wang, P., and Cheng, X., 2004. Time-frequency variations of the Plio-Pleistocene foraminiferal isotopes: a case study from the southern South China Sea. Diqiu Kexue, 15:283-289.

Tian, J., Wang, P., Cheng, X., and Li, Q., 2002. Astronomically tuned Plio-Pleistocene benthic δ¹⁸O record from South China Sea and Atlantic-Pacific comparison. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 203:1015-1029. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00923-8

Tian, J., Wang, P., Cheng, X., Wang, R., and Sun, X., 2005. Forcing mechanism of the Pleistocene east Asian monsoon variations in a phase perspective. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci., 48:1708-1717.

Tian, J., Zhao, Q., Wang, P., Li, Q., and Cheng, X., 2007. Astronomically modulated Neogene sediment records from the South China Sea. Paleoceanography, 23(3):PA3210. doi:10.1029/2007PA001552

Wang, P., Prell, W., Blum, P., and the Leg 184 Shipboard Scientific Party, 1999. Exploring the Asian monsoon through drilling in the South China Sea. JOIDES J., 25(2):8-13. Article]

Wang, R., Clemens, S., Huang, B., and Chen, M., submitted. Paleoceanographic implications of radiolarians in the last 1.0 Ma from the northern South China Sea. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol.

Wang, P., Tian, J., Cheng, X., Liu, C., and Xu, J., 2003. Carbon reservoir changes preceded major ice-sheets expansion at the mid-Brunhes event. Geology, 31:239-242. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0239:CRCPMI>2.0.CO;2

Wang, P., Tian, J., Cheng, X., Liu, C., and Xu, J., 2003. Exploring cyclic changes of the ocean carbon reservoir. Chin. Sci. Bull., 48:2536-2548.

Wang, P., Tian, J., Cheng, X., Liu, C., and Xu, J., 2004. Major Pleistocene stages in a carbon perspective: the South China Sea record and its global comparison. Paleoceanography, 19. doi:10.1029/2003PA000991

Wehausen, R., and Brumsack, H.-J., 2002. Astronomical forcing of the East Asian monsoon mirrored by the composition of Pliocene South China Sea sediments. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 201:621-636. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00746-X

Wei, G., Li, X.-H., Liu, Y., Shao, L., and Liang, X., 2006. Geochemical record of chemical weathering and monsoon climate change since the early Miocene in the South China Sea. Paleoceanography, 21:PA4214. doi:10.1029/2006PA001300

Wei, G., Liu, Y., Li, X., Shao, L., and Fang, D., 2004. Major and trace element variations of the sediments at ODP Site 1144, South China Sea, during the last 230 ka and their paleoclimate implications. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 212:331-342. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.06.011

Wei, G., Shao, L., Liu, Y., Li, X., and Liang, X., 2003. Climatic impact on Al, K, Sc and Ti in marine sediments; evidence from ODP Site 1144, South China Sea. Geochem. J., 37:593-602.

Williams, T., 2006. Magnetostratigraphy from downhole measurements in ODP holes. In Sager, W.W., Acton, G.D., Clement, B.M., and Fuller, M. (Eds.), ODP Contributions to Paleomagnetism. Phys. Earth Planet. Int., 156:261-273. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2005.09.016

Zhao, Q., submitted. Late Cainozoic ostracod faunas and paleoenvironmental changes at ODP 1148, South China Sea. Mar. Microbiol.

Zheng, F., Li, Q., Tu, X.., Chen, M.,. Li, B. and Jian, Z.,. 2005. A millennial scale planktonic foraminiferal record of mid-Pleistocene climate transition from the northern South China Sea. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., 223:349-363. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.04.018

Zhong, G., Geng, J., Wong, H.K., Ma, Z., and Wu, N., 2004. A semi-quantitative method for the reconstruction of eustatic sea level history from seismic profiles and its application to the southern South China Sea. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 223:443-459. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.04.039

Geological Society of London Special Publication

Clift, P.D., Lin, J., and ODP Leg 184 Scientific Party, 2001. Patterns of extension and magmatism along the continent-ocean boundary, South China Margin. In Wilson, R.C.L., Beslier M.-O., Whitmarsh, R.B., Froitzheim, N., and Taylor, B. (Eds.), Non-volcanic Rifting of Continental Margins: A Comparison of Evidence from Land and Sea, Spec. Publ.—Geol. Soc. London, 187:489-510.

Huchon, P., Nguyen, T.N.H., and Chamot-Rooke, N., 2001. Propagation of continental break-up in the southwestern South China Sea. In Wilson, R.C.L., Beslier M.-O., Whitmarsh, R.B., Froitzheim, N., and Taylor, B. (Eds.), Non-volcanic Rifting of Continental Margins: A Comparison of Evidence from Land and Sea, Spec. Publ.—Geol. Soc. London, 187:31-50.

Marine Geology Special Volume

Chen, M., Wang, R., Yang, L., Han, J., and Lu, J., 2003. Development of east Asian summer monsoon environments in the late Miocene: radiolarian evidence from Site 1143 of ODP Leg 184. In Clemens, S.C., Wang, P., and Prell., W.L. (Eds.), Asian Monsoons and Global Linkages on Milankovitch and Sub-Milankovitch Time Scales, Mar. Geol., 201:169-177. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00215-9

Higginson, M.J., Maxwell, J.R., and Altabet, M.A., 2003. Nitrogen isotope and chlorin paleoproductivity records from the Northern South China Sea: remote vs. local forcing of millennial- and orbital-scale variability. In Clemens, S.C., Wang, P., and Prell., W.L. (Eds.), Asian Monsoons and Global Linkages on Milankovitch and Sub-Milankovitch Time Scales, Mar. Geol., 201:223-250. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00218-4

Kissel, C., Laj, C., Clemens, S., and Solheid, P., 2003. Magnetic signature of environmental changes in the last 1.2 Myr at ODP Site 1146, South China Sea. In Clemens, S.C., Wang, P., and Prell., W.L. (Eds.), Asian Monsoons and Global Linkages on Milankovitch and Sub-Milankovitch Time Scales, Mar. Geol., 201:119-132. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00212-3

Liu, Z., Trentesaux, A., Clemens, S.C., Colin, C., Wang, P., Huang, B., and Boulay, S., 2003. Clay mineral assemblages in the northern South China Sea: implications for East Asian monsoon evolution over the past 2 million years. In Clemens, S.C., Wang, P., and Prell., W.L. (Eds.), Asian Monsoons and Global Linkages on Milankovitch and Sub-Milankovitch Time Scales, Mar. Geol., 201:133-146. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00213-5

Sun, X., Luo, Y., Huang, F., Tian, J., and Wang, P., 2003. Deep-sea pollen from the South China Sea: Pleistocene indicators of East Asian monsoon. In Clemens, S.C., Wang, P., and Prell., W.L. (Eds.), Asian Monsoons and Global Linkages on Milankovitch and Sub-Milankovitch Time Scales, Mar. Geol., 201:97-118. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00211-1

Tamburini, F., Adatte, T., Föllmi, K., Bernasconi, S.M., and Steinmann, P., 2003. Investigating the history of East Asian monsoon and climate during the last glacial-interglacial period (0-140000 years): mineralogy and geochemistry of ODP Sites 1143 and 1144, South China Sea. In Clemens, S.C., Wang, P., and Prell., W.L. (Eds.), Asian Monsoons and Global Linkages on Milankovitch and Sub-Milankovitch Time Scales, Mar. Geol., 201:147-168. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00214-7

Wei, K.-Y., Chiu, T.-C., and Chen, Y.-G., 2003. Toward establishing a maritime proxy record of the East Asian summer monsoon for the late Quaternary. In Clemens, S.C., Wang, P., and Prell., W.L. (Eds.), Asian Monsoons and Global Linkages on Milankovitch and Sub-Milankovitch Time Scales, Mar. Geol., 201:67-79. doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00209-3

American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 149

Clift, P.D., Layne, G.D, and Blusztajn, J., 2004. Marine sedimentary evidence for monsoon strengthening, Tibetan uplift and drainage evolution in East Asia. In Clift, P.D., Wang, P., Hayes, D., and Kuhnt, W. (Eds.), Continent-Ocean Interactions in the East Asian Marginal Seas. Am. Geophys. Union, Geophys. Monogr., 149.

Holbourn, A., Kuhnt, W., and Schulz, M., 2004. Orbitally paced climate variability during the middle Miocene: high resolution benthic stable-isotope records from the tropical western Pacific. In Clift, P.D., Wang, P., Hayes, D., and Kuhnt, W. (Eds.), Continent-Ocean Interactions in the East Asian Marginal Seas. Am. Geophys. Union, Geophys. Monogr., 149.

Kuhnt, W., Holbourn, A., Hall, R., Zuvela, M., and Käse, R., 2004. Neogene history of the Indonesian throughflow. In Clift, P.D., Wang, P., Hayes, D., and Kuhnt, W. (Eds.), Continent-Ocean Interactions in the East Asian Marginal Seas. Am. Geophys. Union, Geophys. Monogr., 149.

Murray, M., and Dorobek, S.L., 2004. Regional tectonics, differential subsidence, and sediment dispersal patterns across the southern South China Sea: implications for sediment flux and regional filling of sedimentary basins during Pliocene to Recent time. In Clift, P.D., Wang, P., Hayes, D., and Kuhnt, W. (Eds.), Continent-Ocean Interactions in the East Asian Marginal Seas. Am. Geophys. Union, Geophys. Monogr., 149.

Sibuet, J.-C., and Hsu, S.-K., 2004. Southeast Asian margin rifting and Taiwan orogeny. In Clift, P.D., Wang, P., Hayes, D., and Kuhnt, W. (Eds.), Continent-Ocean Interactions in the East Asian Marginal Seas. Am. Geophys. Union, Geophys. Monogr., 149.

Wang, P., 2004. Cenozoic deformation and the history of sea-land interactions in Asia. In Clift, P.D., Wang, P., Hayes, D., and Kuhnt, W. (Eds.), Continent-Ocean Interactions in the East Asian Marginal Seas. Am. Geophys. Union, Geophys. Monogr., 149.

Marine Micropaleonotology Special Volume

Wang, P., and Lipps, J.H., 2005. Micropaleontology of the South China Sea. In Wang, P., and Lipps, J. (Eds.), Marine Micropaleonotology of the South China Sea, Mar. Micropaleontol., 54:1-3. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.09.001

Cheng, X., Huang, B., Jian, Z., Zhao, Q., Tian, J., and Li, J., 2005. Foraminiferal isotopic evidence for monsoonal activity in the South China Sea: a present-LGM comparison. In Wang, P., and Lipps, J. (Eds.), Marine Micropaleonotology of the South China Sea, Mar. Micropaleontol., 54:125-139. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.09.007

Hess, S., and Kuhnt, W., 2005. Neogene and Quaternary paleoceanographic changes in the southern South China Sea (Site 1143): the benthic foraminiferal record. In Wang, P., and Lipps, J. (Eds.), Marine Micropaleonotology of the South China Sea, Mar. Micropaleontol., 54:63-87. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.09.004

Li, B., Jian, Z., Li, Q., Tian, J., and Wang, P., 2005. Paleoceanography of the South China Sea since the middle Miocene: evidence from planktonic foraminifera. In Wang, P., and Lipps, J. (Eds.), Marine Micropaleonotology of the South China Sea, Mar. Micropaleontol., 54:49-62. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.09.003

Li, Q., Jian, Z., and Su, X, 2005. Late Oligocene rapid transformations in the South China Sea. In Wang, P., and Lipps, J. (Eds.), Marine Micropaleonotology of the South China Sea, Mar. Micropaleontol., 54:5-25. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.09.008

Luo, Y., Sun, X., and Jian, Z., 2005. Environmental change during the penultimate glacial cycle: a high-resolution pollen record from ODP Site 1144, South China Sea. In Wang, P., and Lipps, J. (Eds.), Marine Micropaleonotology of the South China Sea, Mar. Micropaleontol., 54:107-123. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.09.006

Xu, J., Wang, P., Huang, B., Li, Q., and Jian, Z., 2005. Response of planktonic foraminifera to glacial cycles: Mid-Pleistocene change in the southern South China Sea. In Wang, P., and Lipps, J. (Eds.), Marine Micropaleonotology of the South China Sea, Mar. Micropaleontol., 54:89-105. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.09.005

Zhao, Q., 2005. Late Cainozoic ostracod faunas and paleoenvironmental changes at ODP Site 1148, South China Sea. In Wang, P., and Lipps, J. (Eds.), Marine Micropaleonotology of the South China Sea, Mar. Micropaleontol., 54:27-47. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2004.09.002

Science in China Special Volume
(These papers were written and peer reviewed in Chinese; the following citations are English translations.)

Wang, P., Tian, J., and Cheng, X., 2001. Transition of Quaternary glacial cyclicity in deep-sea records at Nansha, the South China Sea. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci., 44:926-933.

Jian, Z., Cheng, X., Zhao, Q., Wang, J., and Wang, P., in press. Oxygen isotope stratigraphy and events in the northern South China Sea during the last 6 million years. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

Zhao, Q., Jian, Z., Wang, J., Cheng, X., Huang, B., Zhou, Z., Fang, D., and Wang, P., in press. Neogene oxygen isotopic stratigraphy, ODP Site 1148, northern China Sea. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

Zhao, Q., Wang, P., Cheng, X., Wang, J., Huang, B., Xu, J., Zhou, Z., and Jian, Z., in press. A record of Miocene carbon excursions in the South China Sea. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

Tu, X., Zheng, F., Wang, J., Cai, H., Wang, P., Büchring, C., and Sarnthein, M., in press. A sudden cooling event during the last interglacial in the northern South China Sea. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

Sun, X., and Lou, Y., in press. Pollen record of the last 280 ka from deep sea sediments of the northern South China Sea. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

Lou, Y., Chen, H., Wu, G., and Sun, X., in press. Records of natural fire and climate history during the last three glacial-interglacial cycles around the South China Sea–Charcoal record from ODP Site 1144. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

Li, B., and Jian, Z., in press. Evolution of planktonic foraminifera and the thermocline in the southern South China Sea since 12 Ma (ODP-184, Site 1143). Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

Wang, R., Fang, D., Shao, L., Chen, M., Xia, P., and Qi, J., in press. Oligocene biogenetic siliceous deposits on the slope of the northern South China Sea. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

Liu, C., and Cheng, X., in press. Variations in upper ocean structure for the last 2 Ma of the Nansha area by means of calcareous nannofossils. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

Shao, L., Li, X., Wei, G., Liu, Y., and Fang, D., in press. Provenance of the high sedimentation rate drift on the northern slope of the South China Sea. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

Liang, X., Wei, G., Shao, L., Li, X., and Wang, R., in press. Records of Toba eruptions in the South China Sea: chemical characteristics of the glass shards from 1143A. Sci. China, Ser. D: Earth Sci.

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