Introduction to the River-Dominated Shelf Sediments of the East Asian Seas

PETER D. CLIFT1*, JAN HARFF2,3, JIAXUE WU4 & YAN QIU5 Department of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA University of Szczecin, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Mickiewicza 18, PL-70-383 Szczecin, Poland Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Seestrasse 15, D-18119 Rostock–Warnemunde, Germany Centre of Coastal Ocean Science and Technology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, China Geological Survey, Guangzhou 510760, China

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