Characteristics and transport mechanism of suspended particles in offshore area of Zhoushan Islands

HU Jilian; DU Xiaoqin

doi:10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2019111304

2020 Vol. 40, No. 6

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HU Jilian, DU Xiaoqin. Characteristics and transport mechanism of suspended particles in offshore area of Zhoushan Islands[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2020, 40(6): 39-48. doi: 10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2019111304

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HU Jilian, DU Xiaoqin. Characteristics and transport mechanism of suspended particles in offshore area of Zhoushan Islands[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2020, 40(6): 39-48. doi: 10.16562/j.cnki.0256-1492.2019111304

Characteristics and transport mechanism of suspended particles in offshore area of Zhoushan Islands

Zhejiang Ocean University, Marine Science and Technology College, Zhoushan 316022, China

Received Date: 13 November 2019

Revised Date: 06 March 2020

Publish Date: 25 December 2020

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The transportation and dispersal of suspended particles play a key role in the deposition and evolution of offshore muddy deposits. In order to reveal the characteristics and transport mechanism of suspended particles in the offshore of Zhoushan Islands, field survey had been carried out during the spring tides in the summer of 2018, which include the observations of temperature, salinity, hydrodynamics, contents of suspended particles, and samples of sea water and seafloor surface sediment, etc. The results show that the suspended particles could be divided into three types: micro-flocs above thermocline with higher effective density formed by low-degree flocculation; larger flocs with lower effective density below thermocline aggregated by high degree of flocculation; and larger biological particles around the thermocline with the lowest effective density. During one diurnal tidal cycle, more than 3 000 kg·m⁻¹ suspended matters were transported southwards, controlled by Stokes drift, tidal pumping and gravitational circulation. In conclusion, the southward transport of suspended particles by continental circulation and tidal asymmetry played a positive role in the evolution of Zhejiang-Fujian muddy system. Nevertheless, the northward transport caused by uneven vertical distribution of velocity and suspended particle weakened the process to certain extent.
- source-sink process /
- flocculation /
- suspended particle transport /
- flux decomposition /
- Zhejiang-Fujian muddy system

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