BURIED PALEO-CHANNEL SYSTEM AND RECORDS OF SEA LEVEL CHANGE ON THE CONTINENTAL SHELF IN YINGGE SEA BASIN

High resolution geophysical instruments were used to locate many buried paleo-channels. paleo-lakes, and river mouth paleo-deltas formed during low sea level at the end of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Some paleo-rivers flowed southward into the paleo-lake and others southeastward into the Paleo-South China Sea. It may be inferred from data on buried paleo-channels that sea level remained for some time at the -50m (longest time here). -100m, and -130 to -140 m(lowest level) water depths, and that corresponding paleo-coastlines were formed at the respective depths.