Grain-size features of aeolian sand on the east coast of Hainan Island and the revealed evolutionary processes of the sedimentary environment

The Mudui stratigraphic section represents the typical records of sedimentation processes of sand dunes and interdune depressions on the east coast of Hainan Island.Based on high-density sampling and optically stimulated luminescence(OSL) dating of the strata of the section,the grain-size composition,grain-size parameters,cumulative distribution probability curve,and grain-size-sensitivity indexes(SC/D) were analyzed.The analyzed results show that the grain-size features of aeolian sand,weakly developed sandy paleosol,two-facies(aeolian and aqueous) deposits,and lagoon deposits are all different.This indicates four evolutionary phases of the sedimentary environment of the east coast of Hainan Island since 38 ka B.P.Phase I:38-22 ka B.P.;phase II:22-17 ka B.P.;phase III:17-10 ka B.P.;phase IV:10 ka B.P.-present.The climate experienced the hot-wet/hot-dry,hot-wet/hot-dry,and warm-wet/hot-wet fluctuations,and the sedimentary environment also underwent lagoon deposition,dune and interdune depression deposition,dune stabilization and soil development,shifting sand deposition,and evolutionary processes.     

RATES OF SEA LEVEL RISE FOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND: A SPACE-TIME CONCEPT

An application of trend surface analysis is presented within a space-time framework to predict the rates of sea-level rise for the southern New England coastal region since 10,000 years B.P. Based on the predicted second order trend surface, 65% of the variance is explained and is significant at the 0.01 level. The results of the analysis also indicate those local areas that have experienced the largest amount of spatial and temporal variation from the regional mean rate of rise since 10,000 years B.P.     

毛乌素沙地南缘全新世自然环境

根据毛乌素沙地南縁柳树湾剖面的孢粉分析,结合岩性、¹⁴C测定等资料,揭示该地全新世植物群落的演替,讨论自然环境的变迁。     

A 48,000 Years Old Tree Stump,Presumably of Spruce,Found in Ringerike,South Norway

The author reports a significant find in 1966 of a tree stump in a sand pit on the ice marginal delta Hensmoen—Jytmoen in Ringerike, South Norway. Radio-carbon dating placed its age to ca. 48,000 years B.P. which means that the discovery presents evidence that at least the lower parts of southern Norway were ice-free at this time. Finds of similar age are known from the neighbouring countries.     

科尔沁沙地东南缘近3000年来植被演化与人类活动

在科尔沁沙地东南部,以蒙古栎为代表的乔木花粉从３１００ａＢ．Ｐ．开始显著下降,蒿属和藜科等草本植物花粉逐渐上升,藜科花粉开始上升时间又迟于蒿属花粉。这说明,原业的固定沙丘有一部分首先转化为半固定沙丘,半固定沙丘后来又转变成半流动和流动沙丘。     

海南岛珊瑚岸礁的特征

本文分析了海南岛珊瑚岸礁的成礁环境,论述了本岛岸礁的结构特征,进而划分了岸礁类型,最后探讨岸礁发育与海平面变化的关系。     

The role of vegetation and bed-level fluctuations in the process of channel narrowing

A catastrophic flood ire 1965 on Plum Creek, a perennial sandbed stream in the western Great Plains, removed most of the bottomland vegetation and transformed the single-thalweg stream into a wider, braided channel. Following eight years of further widening associated with minor high flows, a process of channel narrowing began in 1973; narrowing continues today. The history of channel narrowing was reconstructed by counting the annual rings of 129 trees and shrubs along a 5-km reach of Plum Creek near Louviers, Colorado. Sixty-three of these plants were excavated in order to determine the age and elevation of the germination point. The reconstructed record of channel change was verified from historical aerial photographs, and then compared to sediment stratigraphy and records of discharge and bed elevation from a streamflow gaging station in the study reach. Channel narrowing at Plum Creel: occurs in two ways. First, during periods of high flow, sand and fine gravel are delivered to the channel, temporarily raising the general bed-level. Subsequently, several years of uninterrupted low flows incise a narrower channel. Second, during years of low flow, vegetation becomes established on the subaerial part of the present channel bed. In both cases, surfaces stabilize as a result of vegetation growth and vertical accretion of sediment.     

珠江三角洲8000年来海平面变化*

本文对9类古海面标志物的107个样品年代数据进行沉积深度棱正、构造升降幅度校正后,绘出珠江三角洲8000年来海平面变化曲线。珠江三角洲8000年来海平面变化可分为趾今6000年前海平面急剧上升、距今6000-5500年海平面波动下降、距今5500-2800年海平面波动上升、距今2800-2200年海平面波动下降、距今2200-900年海平面波动上升和距今900-600年海平面轻徽下降6个阶段。海平面变化曲线与化石硅藻垂向变化、孢粉反映的气候变化、滨岸沙堤形成期和古文化遗址堆积的变化等有较好的一致性。     

神府东胜煤田的沙漠化问题

神府、东胜煤田50000Km²范围内现有沙漠化土地37990.2Km², 占总土地面积的72.9%, 比七十年代后期的41153.67Km²减少了3163.46Km², 减少了6%左右。通过对土地沙漠化形成因子的多元分析, 表明土地沙漠化是在全球或区域气候变化的背景下演进的。人为活动也在相当程度上受气候干湿变化的制约。人为活动对土地沙漠化的诱发作用具有气候因素控制下的复杂反应性质。根据土地沙漠化多因子控制模型, 预测沙漠化发展趋势, 并提出了相应的防治对策。     

Paleochemistry and paleohydrology of Ceylon Lake,a salt-dominated playa basin in the northern Great Plains,Canada

In the western part of the Canadian Prairies, there are thousands of small, closed-basin saline lakes. Most of these lakes are ephemeral, filling with water during the spring and drying completely by late summer. Ceylon Lake, located in southern Saskatchewan, is typical of many of these shallow ephemeral lacustrine basins. The stratigraphic sequence recovered from this salt playa can be subdivided into six distinct facies types: (a) icelaid gravelly clay loam diamicton; (b) fluvial massive bedded to laminated sand; (c) lacustrine laminated calcareous clay and silt; (d) lacustrine laminated gypsiferous clay and silt; (e) lacustrine black, anoxic, nonlaminated, organic-rich mud; and (f) lacustrine salt. The crystalline salt facies, which can be up to 9 meters thick, is comprised mainly of sodium and sodium + magnesium sulfates, with smaller and more variable proportions of other sulfates, halides, carbonates, and insoluble clastic detritus.Although a variety of postdepositional processes have significantly altered the nature and stratigraphic relationships in the basin, the sediment fill does record, in a general way, the fluctuating depositional, hydrological, and geochemical conditions that existed in the basin since deglaciation. The Ceylon Lake basin originated about 15 000 years ago as meltwater from the retreating glacial ice cut a major spillway system in the drift and bedrock. The initial (early Holocene) phases of lacustrine sedimentation in Ceylon Lake occurred in a relatively deep freshwater lake. By about 6000 years B.P., the lake had become much shallower with numerous episodes of complete drying and subaerial exposure. The most recent 5000 years of deposition in the basin have been dominated by evaporite sedimentation. The composition of the soluble salts deposited during this time indicates some degree of cyclic sedimentation superimposed on an overall gradual shift from a sodium dominated brine to one of mixed sodium and magnesium.     

EARLY HOLOCENE CONDITIONS AT THE WESTERN MARGIN OF CAPE COD BAY

A paleoenvironmental model is proposed for the western shoreline of Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, from about 9,000 through 5,500 years B.P. Central to this reconstruction is the integration and correlation of the glacial sediments, radiometric chronology and pollen stratigraphy of an exposed peat deposit located near Nameloc Heights, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Four Carbon-14 dates provide a chronology and suggest an average rate of peat accumulation of about 6 cm/100 years from 8,800 through 7,400 years B.P., decreasing to 3 cm/100 years from 7,400 to 5,500 years B.P. This sequence of radiometric dates provides a temporal framework within which the pollen taxa of the peat deposit can be correlated to the established floristic zones of the southern New England region.     

青海湖东岸的风沙堆积

风沙堆积和风成沙丘的发育在分布上服从于两条规律, 一条是地带性规律, 即绝大多数沙漠均分布于干旱地区, 或在副热带高压带及其产生的信风带, 或在温带干旱大陆中心, 另一条是非地带性规律, 即在某些非干旱区域如河流、海岸或湖泊的沙质滨岸地带, 只要有一定的风力条件也可形成风沙堆积。     

新疆乌尊布拉克东部干盐湖成盐环境和成盐年代的初步研究

新疆乌尊布拉克盐湖是我国目前少见的含钾硝酸盐型盐湖。文中根据资料和ＣＫ９６—１钻孔剖面中(１４)Ｃ年龄以及岩性的变化,粗略地探讨第四纪晚更新世末期大约４万年以来新疆乌尊布拉克盐湖沉积特征、成盐环境和大致年代。     

近40ka来海南岛海岸沙地气候与环境演变

选择海南岛东、西海岸具有代表性和高分辨率特征的木堆、棋子湾等地层剖面,在建立年代序列的基础上,对风成沙粒度组成与参数、SC/D值及磁化率等代用指标的研究表明,末次冰期间冰阶时气候相对温暖,滨海平原上河流三角洲前移,湿地、沙丘与交错分布;末次盛冰期时气候干凉,海岸沙地上形成了多道平行延伸的古沙垄(丘),并与大陆架古沙丘形成连续性沉积;末次冰消期时气候快速变化,古沙垄(丘)或加积发育或固定成壤;全新世以来气候回暖并波动变化,次生沙丘经历多次半固定、固定－沙丘加积、活化的演变。     

Environmental changes documented by sedimentation of Lake Yiema in arid China since the late Glaciation

In this study, a 6 m long core (16,000 BP) at the center of the dry Lake Yiema, a closed lake of Shiyang River drainage in Minqin Basin of the arid northwestern China, was retrieved to recover the history of climate changes and lake evolution in the area. Five radiocarbon dates on organic matter were obtained. A chronological sequence is established based on these five dates and other dates from nearby sites. Magnetic susceptibility, particle size and chemical composition were analysized for climate proxies. The proxies indicate that a drier climate prevailed in the Shiyang River drainage during the last glacial. Lake Yiema was dry and eolian sand covered most part of the lake basin. During the early and middle Holocene, a moister climate prevailed in the drainage. Climate became dry stepwise with an abrupt transition from one stage to another during the entire Holocene and became driest since about 4,200 BP. Maximum dry climate spells occurred at about 12,000-10,000 BP and after about 4,200 BP. A dry climate event also existed at about 7,600 BP. Periodical sand storms with about 400-yr cycle happened during the middle Holocene. Desiccation processes of the lake started at 4,200 BP, and were accelerated since the last 2,500 yrs by the inflow water diversion for agriculture irrigation. During the past 2,500 yrs, the lake size has been closed associated with the human population, implying that the human impact has been accelerating the lake desiccation superimposed on the natural climate deterioration.     

A STATISTICAL TEST OF FLORISTIC ZONES AS INFERRED FROM THE POLLEN RECORD: SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND

This study presents the stratigraphic and floristic interpretations of data collected from a 6.49 m core taken within the Rowley River Marsh, Massachusetts. Twenty-five samples were collected at 28 centimeter intervals from the core in this Holocene coastal marsh. Based on stratigraphic control, the age of the core samples includes a time sequence extending back 4,600 years from the present. Analysis of the core stratigraphic units suggests the environment has essentially been a low energy estuarine system for the past 4,600 years. The 25 samples were also processed for pollen taxa present since 4,600 years B.P. A discriminant function analysis was used to test the floristic zonal similarity of the diagnostic taxa (Picea, Pinus, Carya, Tsuga, Quercus) from the core with those same taxa used to establish the floristic zones for the southern New England region. The results of the analysis demonstrated that 84% of the samples were correctly classified by floristic zone. Although the distribution of diagnostic taxa from this study is generally in agreement with the previously established floristic zones, the Tsuga taxa are present throughout the temporal sequence, suggesting the occurrence of a cooler climate regime for the sampling site since 4,600 years B.P.     

Infill of a structurally controlled estuary: An example from southern Whanganui Inlet, New Zealand

Abstract:  Whanganui Inlet, South Island, New Zealand, is a structurally controlled estuary where most of the accommodation space has been occupied by sediment and expanses of mud/sand flats are exposed at low tide. A flood-tide delta extends 1.5 km from the entrance; however, both a mud basin and surfical fluvial deltas are absent from the inlet. Sedimentological and foraminiferal analysis of vibrocores from the inlet's southern half indicates that the intertidal flats accreted close to modern elevations soon after sea level flooding. The present surfical morphology of Whanganui Inlet therefore appears to be inherited from sedimentation that took place soon after sea level stabilized, with little deposition now occurring on the intertidal flats.     

Diatom-based Holocene paleoenvironmental records from continental sites on northeastern Ellesmere Island, high Arctic, Canada

Stratigraphic changes in diatom assemblages from four small lakes on northeastern Ellesmere Island, high Arctic, Canada, provide a proxy lake-ice cover and paleoenvironmental record. Low absolute diatom abundances and a benthic Fragilaria (sensu lata) dominated assemblage during the postglacial (< 7.6 ka B.P.) to mid-Holocene record the moderating effects of locally retreating glaciers. Around 5.5 ka B.P. diatom concentrations begin to rise, reaching their highest levels (10⁹ valves per g dry sediment) between 4.2 and 3 ka B.P., interpreted to be the warmest period in this region. Topoclimatic differences between lakes on Hazen Plateau and those lower in Lake Hazen Basin account for the initial decline in diatom abundances in the upper lakes after 3 ka B.P. This change is thought to reflect a lowering of the regional snowline, accordant with widely recognized Neoglacial advances on Ellesmere Island and Greenland. Lakes in lower Lake Hazen Basin maintained extensive summer ice free conditions until ~ 1.9 ka B.P., after which diatom abundances declined, suggesting prolonged summer lake-ice cover through the remainder of the recovered Holocene record. Differences between the records presented here and those from coastal areas of the Canadian high Arctic highlight the unique topoclimatic characteristics and continentality of the Lake Hazen region, and possible effects that local marine environments may have had on coastal records. Such differences serve to demonstrate the inherent geographic variability of paleoenvironmental records from the high Arctic.     

福建平潭青峰老红砂物源示踪分析

本研究分别在平潭青峰、坛南湾和闽江口琅岐岛采集18个老红砂样品、19个海滩砂样品以及40个河滩砂样品,并对这些样品进行粒度和稀土元素(REE)测量。结果发现老红砂与闽江口琅岐岛河口砂的稀土元素含量特征十分接近;分别对老红砂与闽江河口砂REE数据以及坛南湾海滩砂与闽江口砂(REE)进行了判别函数分析,老红砂的∑REE平均值为84.25μg/g,琅岐岛河口砂的∑REE平均值为89.81μg/g,相似性明显;坛南湾海滩砂的∑REE平均值为16.41μg/g,与闽江河口砂含量差别较大。研究表明:青峰老红砂沉积物主要来源于闽江口河口砂,末次间冰期暖湿气候下闽江输砂量增大,河口外沿岸流增强,大量河砂进入海坛海峡,在强劲的季风搬运下,沉积于平潭岛北部,形成以青峰为代表的平潭岛北部老红砂;而坛南湾海滩砂代表海洋波浪搬运的泥沙,不是老红砂的物源。     

Sequence morphodynamics at an emergent barrier island, middle Atlantic coast of North America

The southern Delmarva Peninsula is located along the middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of the United States. The axial highland of the peninsula formed in four stages of Pleistocene spit progradation. The landward shoreline of the peninsula is on the Chesapeake Bay. The seaside shoreline of the peninsula is on the Atlantic Ocean. The coast of the peninsula is composed of five landscape sections described as a headland, a left-hand spit, a right-hand spit, a wave-dominated barrier island, and tide-dominated barrier islands.Fisherman Island is a barrier island located at the southern end of the southern Delmarva Peninsula. The landscape features on Fisherman Island do not illustrate a direct linkage to (1) the sediment dispersion from the Delaware headland or (2) the influence of local antecedent topography. The island has a bipolar progradational history that is normal to the axis of the southerly sediment dispersion pattern from the Delmarva headlands.During the late Holocene, sea-level rise flooded the low-elevation land at the distal end of the southern Delmarva Peninsula. The submerged area formed a shallow platform in the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. Two sediment dispersion tracts affected the development of this area. On the ocean side of the peninsula, sediment moved southward along the lower shoreface to the Chesapeake Bay entrance. On the west side of the peninsula, southerly moving bay currents also dispersed sediment to the entrance of the bay. The two tracts converged on the northern side of the bay entrance forming a broad sand shoal. Wave diffraction and refraction around the margins of the shoal “swept” sediment into linear sand bars that migrated back toward the peninsula.By the middle of the 19th century, the fusion of sand bars on the shoal surface produced a permanent nucleus for island development. Wave refraction caused wave crests to “wrap around” the island core producing separate easterly and westerly components of shore aggradation. The westerly aggradational history is recorded in closely spaced sets of beach ridges. The easterly aggradational history is recorded in broadly spaced hammocks.