An Empirical Age Model of Sediment Cores in the South China Sea based on Varimax-Rotated Principal Components Analysis of the Ship-Board Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy Data

Hui-Juan Pan, NTOU National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, Joseph D. Ortiz, Kent State University, Department of Geology, Kent, OH, United States and Min-Te Chen, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technolog, Laboratory for Marine Geology, QingDao, China; National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan