Discrimination of sediment provenance using rare earth elements in the Ulleung Basin, East/Japan Sea

Source identification of heavy metal contamination using metal association and Pb isotopes in Ulsan Bay sediments, East Sea, Korea

“…The tidal range of the sea is less than 1 m. The distribution of water temperature and salinity suggests a strong influence of freshwater from the Taehwa River, and the major directions of the tidal currents are southwest and northeast throughout the year (Kwon, 2012). A strong coastal front forms offshore at water depths of 20-80 m in the vicinity of the East Korean Coastal Water current, which is an extension of the South Korean Coastal Water current that moves in a northerly direction, and the East Korean Warm Water current, which is a branch of the Tsushima Warm Current that enters the East Sea through the Korea Strait (Um et al, 2013).…”

Sources and geochemical background of potentially toxic metals in surface sediments from the Zhejiang coastal mud area of the East China Sea

“…However, the concentrations of potentially toxic metals were not controlled by TOC in the current study. Although, TOC was well correlated with Pb, Zn, and Cr, the correlations were mainly due to their lithogenic origins (Um et al, 2013).…”

Initiation of East Asia monsoon failure at the climate transition from the Medieval Climate Anomaly to the Little Ice Age

“…The absence of large rivers along the eastern coast of Korea results in low fluvial sediment input to the East Sea. However, the shelf mud deposit accumulated along the coast is considered to contain terrigenous sediments possibly from nearby Nakdong River and/or Yangtze River (Um et al, 2013). X-ray radiographs of core TY08PC1 reveal that the sediments are bioturbated mud that was most likely deposited by hemipelagic settling.…”