Introduction to the China-Vietnam Cooperation Project: A Comparative Study of the Holocene Sedimentary Evolution of the Yangtze and Red River Deltas

作     者：YIN Ping PHUNG Van Phach TRAN Dinh Lan DO Huy Cuong BUI Van Vuong DUAN Xiaoyong 

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Geology Ministry of Natural Resources Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology Laboratory for Marine Geology Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology Institute of Marine Environment and Resources Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology 

出 版 物：《Journal of Ocean University of China》 (中国海洋大学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第17卷第6期

页      面：1269-1271页

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学科分类：07[理学] 

基　　金：Ministry of Natural Resources of China Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, VAST Ministry of Land and Resources of the People's Republic of China, MLR China Geological Survey, CGS 

主　　题：Yangtze River Delta Red River Delta Holocene sedimentary environment 

摘      要：Both China and Vietnam confront the challenges of natural geohazards and environmental changes in their deltas and coastal zones due to rapid urbanization, economic development, and the impacts of global climate change. China and Vietnam initiated a comparative study of the Holocene sedimentary evolution of the Yangtze River Delta(YRD) and Red River Delta(RRD) for the period 2015–2018 in order to improve the understanding of the two delta evolution histories in the Holocene. Previous investigative data of the two rivers, onshore delta plains, and offshore subaqueous deltas have been explored and reinterpreted. New data gleaned from boreholes, piston cores, shallow seismic and hydrodynamic sources have been collected from the offshore YRD and the East China Sea inner shelf, and surface sediments and short cores have been collected from the RRD near-shore areas. Six focal areas of the joint project have been defined for comparative studies of the two deltas, including morphological development, sequential stratigraphy, coastline shifting, sedimentary characteristics, sedimentary dynamics, and correlation with anthropogenic global climate change. The results of these study areas are presented herein. The joint project also includes cooperative capacity building; exchanges of young scientists have been organized during the project period, and hands-on training in laboratory geochemical analysis, numerical modeling, and seismic data processing and interpretation have been provided by China and its Vietnamese geoscientist partners. Joint field excursions were organized to the upstream of the Yangtze and Red Rivers in Yunan Province, China, all the way downstream along the Vietnamese portion of the Red River. These joint studies have, over the past three years, improved understanding of the evolutionary history of these two major rivers and their mechanisms of source to sink. Joint project results of these two major deltas are not limited to the geosciences; the cooperativ