Fig. 11

Sediment depositional patterns during a high and b low sea level stages. The dispersal of Pearl River-sourced sediments depicted by red shaded area is wider in the glacial epochs based on our results and previous studies (Liu et al. 2016, 2017) than during the Holocene (Ge et al. 2014). The dispersal of Taiwan-sourced sediments represented by green shaded area is mainly located in the range of the SCSBKC and DWC based on our results and previous studies (Shao et al. 2007; Wan et al. 2010a; Liu et al. 2016). Gray ribbons show the locations of the ITCZ in glacial and modern times (McGee et al. 2014; Clift 2020) with the high precipitation zones noted by cloud icons. See Fig. 1 for all current systems