Natural and human-induced effects on grain size of surface sediments along the Lianyungang muddy coast, China

Cunyong Zhang; Xiuli Feng

doi:10.1007/s00343-011-0007-9

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Natural and human-induced effects on grain size of surface sediments along the Lianyungang muddy coast, China

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- Natural and human-induced effects on grain size of surface sediments along the Lianyungang muddy coast, China
- Natural and human-induced effects on grain size of surface sediments along the Lianyungang muddy coast, China
- 海洋湖沼学报（英文） 2011年29卷第2期页码：387-397
- Affiliations：
  
  1. College of Marine Geosciences Ocean University of China
  2. School of Geodesy & Geomatics Engineering Huaihai Institute of Technology
- Author bio：
- Funds：
  
  Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of the Institutions of Higher Education of Jiangsu (No. 07KJD170012)
- DOI：10.1007/s00343-011-0007-9
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- 网络首发：2011-03-02，
  
  纸质出版：2011
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Natural and human-induced effects on grain size of surface sediments along the Lianyungang muddy coast, China[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2011,29(2):387-397.

Zhang, C., Feng, X. Natural and human-induced effects on grain size of surface sediments along the Lianyungang muddy coast, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 29, 387–397 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-011-0007-9
Natural and human-induced effects on grain size of surface sediments along the Lianyungang muddy coast, China[J]. 海洋湖沼学报（英文）, 2011,29(2):387-397. DOI： 10.1007/s00343-011-0007-9.

Zhang, C., Feng, X. Natural and human-induced effects on grain size of surface sediments along the Lianyungang muddy coast, China., Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 29, 387–397 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-011-0007-9 DOI：

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Abstract

To examine spatial variations of grain-size characteristics caused by both natural and human-induced processes along the Lianyungang muddy coast

China

129 samples were collected and measured using standard sieving and sedimentation techniques. Results show that sediment diameter tends to increase with increasing water depth from nearshore to offshore. Size-frequency distributions indicate a gradual mixing process of coarse and fine diameter material. Grain size trend analysis indicates that a man-made structure

the West Breakwater

along with Liandao Island itself

has resulted in severe siltation in Haizhou Bay and the Lianyungang port area

where sediment quality is also poor. Results demonstrate that grain size can be used as a natural tracer to infer how sediments respond to the effects caused by both natural and human-induced processes.

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