Recent Multidisciplinary Research Initiatives and IODP Drilling in the South China Sea

Jian Lin, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States; Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Chun-Feng Li, Zhejiang University, Department of Marine Sciences, Zhoushan, China, Pinxian Wang, Tongji University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Shanghai, China and Denise K Kulhanek, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Institute of Geosciences, Kiel, Germany