Figure 2

Distribution of sediments on Yangtze Shoal (Cai et al.26). The research area is about 3 × 104 km2. Core ZC1 distributed on the sand ridge. Core ZC2 distributed on the sand groove. All surface samples were obtained in 2009 (
), 2013 (
), 2014 (
) and 2015 (
), and core samples were obtained in 2014 (
).