Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program(No.2016YFC1402201);the China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association Project(No.DY135-E2-2-04)。
Microplastic contamination is considered a major threat to the marine environment.Although microplastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean has been studied,its abundance,distribution,composition,and origin in the western ...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41930533,42176128);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB42000000);the Senior User Project of R/V Kexue(No.KEXUE2020GZ02);the Science and Technology Program of Nanji Islands National Marine Nature Reserve Administration(No.JJZB-PYCG-2021112901)。
The black coral genus Bathypathes Brook,1889 represents a relatively diverse and ecologically important assemblage comprising the deep-sea hard substrate communities.Recent phylogenetic investigations have revealed th...
supported by the Basic Scientific Fund for National Public Research Institutes of China(Grant No.2023S02);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42076076&42376075);the Taishan Scholar Program of Shandong Province。
Oceanic intraplate volcanoes with linear age progressions are usually accepted to be derived from melting of an upwelling mantle plume.Several seamount groups in NW Pacific,however,show complex age-distance relationsh...
The formation and growth mechanisms of Mid-Ocean Ridges(MOR)are relatively well known,whereas those of back-arc spreading ridges are comparatively less known because geophysical,geochemical,and morphological data are ...
the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.XDB42000000);the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41930533);the Chinese Academy of Sciences Pioneer Hundred Talents Program(to Nansheng CHEN);the Taishan Scholar Project Special Fund(to Nansheng CHEN)。
One specimen belonging to the family Comatellinae was collected from the Zhenbei Seamount(332.5–478.2 m)in the South China Sea in July 2022.Based on the morphological characters,the specimen was identified as Palaeoc...
Funding for this work was provided by CONACYT Grant No.A1-S-23107。
Nearly 80%of the seafloor extension has not been covered by high-resolution bathymetry,impeding direct observation of seamounts.Nevertheless,lists of seamount location and height at a global scale have been produced u...
Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No.2021YFE0193700);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.XDB42000000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41930533);the Biological Resources Program;Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.KFJ-BRP-017-38);the Major Scientific and Technological Projects of Hainan Province (No.ZDKJ2021036)。
Benthodytes tetrapapillata sp.nov.was collected from a seamount located on the Caroline Ridge at a depth of 2289 m,during the cruise of R/V Kexue in June 2019.We provided detailed descriptions of external and deposits...
funded by Darius Project(Head M.Marroni),PRA project of the Pisa University(Head S.Rocchi),IGG-CNR,FAR-2018 Project of the Ferrara University(Head E.Saccani).
The Durkan Complex is a tectonic element of the Makran Accretionary Prism(SE Iran)that includes fragments of Late Cretaceous seamounts.In this paper,the results of map-to micro-scale structural studies of the western ...
The Global Change and Air-sea Interaction II Project under contract Nos GASI-04-HYST-01 and GASI-01-NPACSTsum;the Eastern Pacific Eco-environment Monitoring and Protection Project under contract No.DY135-E2-5-02;the Fund of COMRA-45 Cruise under contract No.DY-HC-135-45;the Scientific Research Foundation of Third Institute of Oceanography,Ministry of Natural Resources of the People’s Republic of China under contract No.2017014。
The flux of settling particles in the ocean has been widely explored since 1980s due to its important role in biogenic elements cycling,especially in the transport of particulate organic carbon(POC)in the deep sea.How...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11804360);the IACAS Frontier Exploration Project(Grant No.QYTS202103);the Key Laboratory Foundation of Acoustic Science and Technology(Grant No.2021-JCJQ-LB-066-08)。
Large-scale topography, such as a seamount, substantially impacts low-frequency sound propagation in an ocean waveguide, limiting the application of low-frequency acoustic detecting techniques. A three-dimensional(3D)...