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The South China Sea

Part of the book series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research ((DPER,volume 13))

As the largest one of the marginal seas separating Asia from the Pacific, the largest continent from the largest ocean, the SCS functions as a focal point in land-sea interactions of the Earth system. Climatically, the SCS is located between the Western Pacific Warm Pool, the centre of global heating at the sea level, and the Tibetan Plateau, the centre of heating at an altitude of 5,000 m. Geomorphologically, the SCS lies to the east of the highest peak on earth, Zhumulangma or Everest in the Himalayas (8,848m elevation) and to the west of the deepest trench in the ocean, Philippine Trench (10,497m water depth) (Wang P. 2004). Biogeographically, the SCS belongs to the so-called “East Indies Triangle” where modern marine and terrestrial biodiversity reaches a global maximum (Briggs 1999).

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