EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS OF NORTHERN JIANGSU COASTAL ZONE AND A DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF NORTHERN JIANGSU SHOAL

The main portion of the northern Jiangsu coastal zone is the silty plain coast. The dynamic equlibrium has been broken continuously since the Quaternary, especially in the Holocene and the historical periods. In 1855 the Huanghe River (Yellow River) changed its channel entering into sea through the Bohai Sea. We find that the beach strand was then silting up intensely in the north of Qinggang but the coast was caving in and the beach was expanding in the south of Qinggang. Multiple shoals and submarine ridges off the coast converged into Qionggang and formed a unique coastal landshaft. In this paper we describe the evolutionary process of the northern Jiangsu coastal zone and discuss the formative conditions for the northern Jiangsu shoal. Finally, a dynamic equilibrium model for the northern Jiangsu shoal is presented.