Advances in Earth Science ›› 2017, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (11): 1119-1125. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2017.11.1119

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The Sunda Shelf—A Submerged Amazon Basin?

Pinxian Wang( )   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
  • Received:2017-09-06 Revised:2017-10-20 Online:2017-11-10 Published:2018-01-10
  • About author:

    First author:Wang Pinxian(1936-),male,Suzhou City,Jiangsu Province, Professor, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Research areas include marine geology and palaeoenvironment.E-mail:pxwang@tongji.edu.cn

Pinxian Wang. The Sunda Shelf—A Submerged Amazon Basin?[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2017, 32(11): 1119-1125.

A crucial and debatable issue in paleoclimatology is the change of terrestrial vegetation and the role of its carbon storage in glacial cycles. In the modern world, the Amazon Basin hosts the largest tropical rainforest and plays a major role of carbon sink, but during the glacial times another large tropical rainforest must have formed in the then emerged Sunda Shelf, SE Asia, and significantly changed the global carbon cycling. Accordingly, ocean drilling expeditions to the Sunda Shelf are being proposed in order to investigate the sea level changes, evolution of river network, vegetation and carbon storage, as well as biogeography of the tropical region over the last millions of years.

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