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- Provides a comprehensive all-round synthesis of the South China Sea (SCS) from modern oceanography to sequence stratigraphy
- Focuses on paleoceanography and sedimentology based on extensive industrial explorations and scientific expeditions
Part of the book series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER, volume 13)
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Pinxian Wang was born in Shanghai in 1936. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1960, majoring in paleontology, and was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in 1981-82 in Kiel, Germany. He is now Professor at the Tongji University, where he was Director of the Department of Marine Geology and the Laboratory of Marine Geology for years. His research activities are mainly devoted to paleoceanography and micropaleontology in the Western Pacific and paleo-monsoon studies in East Asia, especially in the South China Sea. He was co-chief scientist of the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 184 to the South China Sea in 1999 and the Marco Polo Cruise to the South China Sea in 2005. He has promoted China’s involvement in international deep-sea programs and founded the series of "Asian Marine Geology Conferences". He is Member of the Chinese Academy of Science, Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society London, AAAS Fellow,and Milutin Milankovic Medalist of EGU in 2007.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The South China Sea
Book Subtitle: Paleoceanography and Sedimentology
Editors: Pinxian Wang, Qianyu Li
Series Title: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9745-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9744-7Published: 15 May 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9659-1Published: 06 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9745-4Published: 27 May 2009
Series ISSN: 1571-5299
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1672
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 506
Topics: Hydrogeology, Oceanography, Sedimentology, Geology, Atmospheric Sciences, Mineral Resources