Recent deep-diving expeditions in the South China Sea (SCS)discovered abundant indigenous cold-water corals [1].Cold-water corals,preferentially inhabiting the low-latitude intermediate and deep waters with hard substrates and a cool water temperature,have great potential to be applied in researches of the ocean inte-rior by providing high-resolution records [2,3].Among cold-water corals,the bamboo coral (Order:Gorgonacea,Family:lsididae) may be the most promising group whose skeleton keeps sequential track of intermediate water conditions over a multi-decadal inter-val,but the paleoceanographic study of bamboo coral is still a vacancy in the SCS.Here we report the first cut-and-try experi-ments on the chronology and composition of a bamboo coral from the intermediate water of the SCS,exploring its paleoceanographic potentials in the subtropical western Pacific region.

Zhiwei Zeng;Haowen Dang;Enqing Huang;Xiaolin Ma;Xiangtong Huang;Le Kong;Ce Yang;Xiaoli Qu;Liping Zhou;Zhimin Jian

State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology,Tongji University,Shanghai 200092,China;State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology,Institute of Earth Environment,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Xi'an 710061,China;State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering,Xi'an Jiaotong University,Xi'an 710049,China;Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes,Department of Geography,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China

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[1]Zhiwei Zeng;Haowen Dang;Enqing Huang;Xiaolin Ma;Xiangtong Huang;Le Kong;Ce Yang;Xiaoli Qu;Liping Zhou;Zhimin Jian-.Potential paleoceanographic application of cold-water bamboo coral in the South China Sea)[J].科学通报（英文版）,2022(05):452-455

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