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Non-barrier mudflats in the Changjiang Estuary is examined to obtain preservation potentials and deposition rates over different time scales. The preservation potential of couplet is ca. 46.6% within daily scale and decreases as the time-interval extending, with 9.2% on a semi-lunar scale and 3.7% on a seasonal scale. In the long term, only 1.6% of daily deposition can potentially be preserved in the tidal flat sequence and other 98.4% have been eroded and leave sedimentary discordances, discernable or un-discernable, in the mudflat deposits. A negative log-linear relationship is examined between sedimentation rates and the time spans. The length of sedimentary hiatuses on the mudflat deposition were estimated with considerable uncertainty, but it can provide from an actualistic base some further insights into the nature and origin of ancient mudflat deposits with emphasis on the sedimentary discordances.
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Fan, D., Li, C., Chen, M. et al. Preservation potential of individual couplet and deposition rates on mudflats in the Changjiang Estuary. Sc. China Ser. B-Chem. 44 (Suppl 1), 33–39 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02884806
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02884806