The tropical cyclone is one of the most devastating weather systems in the world. With the global warming and climate change, the abnormal activities of tropical cyclones are widely concerned by the governments, the academic researchers and the public. This paper analyze the role and mechanism of tropical cyclones in the process of source-to-sink on marine sediments, and our research result shows that tropical cyclones play an important role in transporting terrigenous sediments, organic carbon and contaminants to the oceans. Tropical cyclone induced waves, strong currents and internal waves can cause the resuspension, erosion, liquefaction and even shear failure of sediments in estuaries and continental shelves, which greatly facilitates the transportation of sediments to deep oceans. Although tropical cyclones have a tendency to increase with the global warming, the frequency of tropical cyclones doesn't show a clear relationship with the global warming, and the research to this scientific question needs a long-term, high-resolution tropical cyclone records. We propose the necessity and feasibility of studying the activity of geological historic tropical cyclones through sedimentary records.