| 1 | Huaguang Coral reef is one of the continental slope atolls in the South ChinaSea, which are distinguished from oceanic atolls and shelf atolls . | |
| 2 | A fractal measurement was made to the contours of the sea floor volcano of South China Sea, which shows that the contours of the volcano and its vicinity have stable fractal dimensions. | |
| 3 | A lot of large mass transport depositions (MTDs) have been discovered in the Quaternary strata according to recent geological and geophysical investigation results. |