Editing Taiwan Strait (section)

== Geology ==

=== Sediment distribution ===
Each year, Taiwan's rivers carry up to 370 million tons of sediments into the sea, including 60 to 150 million tons deposited into the Taiwan Strait.<ref name="LiuLiu2008">{{cite journal |last1=Liu |first1=J. P. |last2=Liu |first2=C. S. |last3=Xu |first3=K. H. |last4=Milliman |first4=J. D. |last5=Chiu |first5=J. K. |last6=Kao |first6=S. J. |last7=Lin |first7=S. W. |title=Flux and fate of small mountainous rivers derived sediments into the Taiwan Strait |journal=Marine Geology |date=20 December 2008 |volume=256 |issue=1 |pages=65–76 |doi=10.1016/j.margeo.2008.09.007|bibcode=2008MGeol.256...65L |url=http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/173695 |access-date= |language=en |issn=0025-3227}}</ref> During the past ten thousand years, 600 billion tons of riverine sediments have been deposited in the Taiwan Strait, locally forming a lobe up to 40 m thick in the southern part of the Taiwan Strait.<ref name="LiuLiu2008" />

[[File:Taiwan Strait Sediment Distribution.png|thumb|Holocence sediment depth in the Taiwan strait, in meters]]