Modern fine-grained sedimentation-spatial variability and environmental controls on an inner pericontinental shelf, Hong Kong

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• environmental control 67%
• sedimentation 43%
• river 28%
• paleotopography 28%
• fine grained sediment 23%
• nitrogen isotope 22%
• suspended particulate matter 22%
• resuspension 20%
• typhoon 20%
• accumulation rate 20%
• anthropogenic effect 19%
• calcium carbonate 19%
• carbon isotope 18%
• continental shelf 17%
• water depth 16%
• stable isotope 16%
• mud 16%
• monsoon 16%
• seafloor 16%
• spatial variation 15%
• silica 15%
• estuary 15%
• organic carbon 15%
• particle size 13%
• rainfall 12%
• land 10%
• sediment 9%
• effect 4%

Chemical Compounds

• Biogenic Silica 100%
• Organic Carbon 64%
• Calcium Carbonate 62%