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The Pearl River Mouth basin (PRMB) is an extensional sedimentary basin located in the northern part of the South China Sea. The basin covers an area of about 175,000 km 2 where the Pearl River meets the South China Sea near Hong Kong.
The mouth of the Pearl River forms a large bay in the southeast of the delta, the Pearl River Estuary, the Bocca Tigris separates Shiziyang in the north, Lingdingyang in the south, and Jiuzhouyang at the southern tip of the estuary surrounded by the Wanshan Archipelago. This bay separates Macau and Zhuhai from Hong Kong and Shenzhen.
The geology of the Pearl River Delta is rock sequences plus superficial sediments, emplaced in an alluvial delta, occupying the Pearl River Estuary. The unconsolidated sediments which dominate the delta are largely derived from continental materials exposed across the Pearl River basin, and range in size from fine particles such as mud to larger fragments like gravel.
Chevron Acquires New Offshore China Acreage Agreements with CNOOC cover two blocks in the Pearl River Mouth Basin SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Chevron Corporation (NYS: CVX) announced ...
The June 7 plan is the Pearl River Basin Mississippi Federal Flood Risk Management Project. Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported the One Lake Proposal would cost between $1 billion ...
That project was discontinued in 1922. Beginning in 1910, a channel was dredged from the mouth of the East Pearl River into Lake Borgne, a project which is maintained on an irregular basis. In 1935, the West Pearl River Navigation Project was authorized. It provided for a navigation channel from Bogalusa to the mouth of the West Pearl River.
The north and northwest parts of the South China Sea are surrounded with rift basins on the passive continental margins. They are the Pearl River Mouth Basin, the Qiongdongnan Basin, the Yinggehai Basin and the Phu Khanh Basin. The development of these basins is closely related to the tectonic history of the South China Sea.
Predictions earlier this week showed the Pearl River would reach 31.5 feet near Jackson, but the latest numbers show it much lower than expected.