We are deeply indebted to Drs. Weiguo Zhang and Brian Finlayson who kindly reviewed the paper and provided constructive comments. This study is jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41176070), the Ministry of Science and Technology, China (No. 2010RCDW05) and the Ministry of Land and Resources of China (No. 201211009).
We measured the magnetic properties of core ZK9 from the subaqueous Yangtze delta to examine the mechanisms and possibility of using magnetic proxies for the sedimentary environmental evolution controlled by the Holoc...