supported by the Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of the Ocean;State Oceanic Administration of the People’s Republic of China(Grant No.201005003);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41376064,41230959,41106043,and 41076033);the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2007CB815903)
Based on a δ180 chronology, rare earth elements (REE) and other typical elements in sediments from core MD06-3047 in the western Philippine Sea were analyzed to constrain the provenances of the sediments and invest...