Geochemistry of Middle Holocene sediments from south Yellow Sea: Implications to provenance and climate change

Geochemistry and mineralogy of the shallow subsurface Red Sea coastal sediments, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia: provenance and paleoenvironmental implications

“…The objectives of the present study are to determine the mineralogical and chemical composition of the sediments previously interpreted by in order to determine their potential for provenance and paleoenvironment interpretations and to distinguish the dominant factor(s) on geochemical characteristics. This approach has been successfully applied for the Holocene sediments in the Nile Delta (Siegel et al, 1995), Mediterranean (Martin-Puertas et al, 2010;Marco-Barba et al, 2013), south Yellow Sea (Lü et al, 2016), South China Sea (Cui et al, 2016;Ge et al, 2019), and Tanzanian shelf (Liu et al, 2017). The findings of this work will help to understand the geochemical evolution of Al-Kharrar Lagoon in relation to the late Holocene sea level and climate.…”