Oceanographic Cruise Summary East China Sea-Yellow Sea (October-November 1968).

摘要

An oceanographic survey of the East China Sea - Yellow Sea was conducted from October to November 1968 aboard the R/V F. V. HUNT as part of the ASW/USW Surveys Project and in a cooperative program with the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE). Continuous seismic profiling, bathymetric, magnetic, sound velocity, suspended sediment, water color, and bathythermograph data were collected to further the knowledge of the area. Sediment distribution in the East China Sea - Yellow Sea appears to be controlled by a series of 'basement' ridges that dam and separate sediment-filled depressions. Up to 1400 meters of sediment has been trapped in the Yellow Sea and more than 2000 meters in the East China Sea northeast of Taiwan. Water structure in the area is largely determined by river outflow from mainland China and by the Kuroshio current.