Sedimentary environment and relative sea level changes revealed by marine biological membrane

Long Pan; Jing Fang; Fu Wang; Zhiwen Shang; Yongsheng Chen; Jianfen Li; Lizhu Tian; Yongqiang Yang; Mansoor Alruqi; Zubair Ahmad; Summaira Malik; Awais Bokhari

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135378

Sedimentary environment and relative sea level changes revealed by marine biological membrane

Chemosphere. 2022 Oct:305:135378. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135378. Epub 2022 Jun 20.

Authors

Long Pan¹, Jing Fang², Fu Wang³, Zhiwen Shang³, Yongsheng Chen³, Jianfen Li³, Lizhu Tian³, Yongqiang Yang⁴, Mansoor Alruqi⁵, Zubair Ahmad⁶, Summaira Malik⁷, Awais Bokhari⁸

Affiliations

¹ School of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China; Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China.
² School of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China. Electronic address: mdfangjing@163.com.
³ Tianjin Centre, China Geological Survey, Tianjin, 300170, China; Key Laboratory of Muddy Coast Geo-environment, China Geological Survey, CGS, Tianjin, 300170, China.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China.
⁵ Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Shaqra University, Al Riyadh, 11911, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ School of Chemical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 38541, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: Zubair7157@yu.ac.kr.
⁷ Department of Economics, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Lahore Campus Lahore 54000 Punjab, Pakistan.
⁸ Department of Chemical Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Lahore Campus Lahore 54000 Punjab, Pakistan; Sustainable Process Integration Laboratory, SPIL, NETME Centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, VUT Brno, Technická 2896/2, 616 00, Brno, Czech Republic.

PMID: 35738408
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135378

Abstract

Marine pollution has a deleterious impact, both on the conditions of the ecosystem and the biodiversity of the ocean. Researchers in the field of marine chemistry have been putting effort into the creation of efficient catalysts for the purification of seawater. There has been extensive research done on membrane technology for the activation of peroxymonosulfate, which is an extremely effective therapy for saltwater. The sediment of QX03, which was obtained from the western coast of Bohai, is located very close to the modern coastline. The uppermost 15 m of this sector were thoroughly analyzed in sedimentary petrology, grain size, shell, and sediment chroma dating to reconstruct the sedimentary environment and relative sea-level during the time period of 44.80 ka cal BP. This indicates that a sea-retreating and retreating process has taken place; VI (5.2-0 m), Terrestrial deposition, is separated into swamp wetlands (VI-1) and flood plain (VI-2). The changes in sedimentary levels had a fairly strong correlation with the changes in sea level. Within the scope of this study, we conducted an in-depth investigation of the innovative membrane technology for the treatment of seawater by means of aqueous phase advanced oxidation close to the Bohai. The results of this study present a prospective technique that could make it possible to use membrane technology in the process of environmental restoration in marine settings.

Keywords: Marine pollution; Sea level; Sedimentary environment.

MeSH terms

Ecosystem*
Environmental Monitoring
Geologic Sediments*
Prospective Studies
Seawater
Wetlands