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Glacial and deglacial seafloor methane emissions from pockmarks on the northern flank of the Storegga Slide complex 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
The Storegga Slide complex is a multi-stage slope failure on the Norwegian continental margin where the most recent major
event occurred 8.1 ka b.p. (calendar years before present). Its northern flank contains pockmark features that are commonly inferred to be related
to the historical and modern venting of methane-bearing fluids. Three jumbo piston cores (JPC), one from a pockmark and two
background cores at variable distances from this site (proximal, 5 km, and distal, 15 km) on the northern flank of the slide
(806–1,524 m water depths), were sampled at 10 cm resolution to assess the geologic record of methane venting in the Nyegga
pockmark field. Six down-core radiocarbon measurements on mixed planktonic foraminifer species reveal ages of 9.4–16.4 ka
b.p. Bathymodiolus mussel shell horizons, indicators of methane-rich environments, have been dated at 15.8–17.6 and ~22 ka b.p. in the pockmark core. Stable isotope analyses on planktonic (Neogloboquadrina pachyderma sinistral) and benthic (Islandiella norcrossi, Melonis barleeanum) Foraminifera reveal δ18O values indicative of a clear glacial/deglacial transition (−1.5‰ shift in planktonic species). Both planktonic and benthic
δ13C signatures record multiple excursions, interpreted to reflect the influence of methane in the environment; these δ13C excursions occur in the pockmark core and also in the distal background core. While authigenic calcite formation on the
seafloor may play an important role in producing such excursions, these data together suggest the influence of methane seepage
within the pockmark field over the past 25 ka, whereby seepage was particularly active between 13 and 15 ka. This is consistent
with previously inferred regional increases in porewater pressure associated with glacial loading and higher sedimentation
rates, which can cause gas hydrate and slope instability. 相似文献
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We report records of land plant-derived long-chain n-alkanes since 37 ka b.p. from a sediment core in the middle Okinawa Trough, East China Sea. The data show the content and carbon preference index
(CPI; degree of freshness) of n-alkanes generally decreasing as sea level rose, which could be explained by coastline retreat resulting in an increased transport
route of n-alkanes toward the study site. The n-alkane CPI returned to higher values during the Holocene highstand, however, suggesting sea-level rise was not the only cause
for the decline of freshness of n-alkanes. Paleovegetation changes in terms of C3 vs. C4 contributions inferred from n-alkane δ13C are overall consistent with published marine and terrestrial records during two distinct intervals: from 37.0 to 15.2 ka
b.p., and from 7.6 ka b.p. to the present. However, n-alkane δ13C excursions from 15.2 to 7.6 ka b.p. are difficult to reconcile with terrestrial signatures. This disagreement, along with other possible causes for the decline
of freshness of n-alkanes, and the higher-energy sedimentary environment inferred from increased mean grain sizes and silt/clay ratios during
this time period, is consistent with existing knowledge of offshore transport of materials previously stored on the extensive
continental shelf during the post-glacial transgression. We therefore suggest that n-alkane records from the Okinawa Trough should be used only cautiously to infer deglacial vegetation and sea-level changes. 相似文献
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K��r?ad Kadir Eri? M. N. ?a?atay Sena Ak?er Luca Gasperini Yosi Mart 《Geo-Marine Letters》2011,31(1):1-18
The late glacial to Holocene sedimentary record of the northern shelf of the Sea of Marmara (SoM) has been documented by detailed
seismo-, chrono-, and biostratigraphic analyses using sub-bottom (Chirp) profiles and sediment cores. During MIS 3 and the
main part of MIS 2 (60–15 14C ka b.p.), disconnection from the Mediterranean and Black seas together with a dry climate resulted in a regression in the SoM, when
the Sea was transformed into a brackish lake. The river incisions below 105 m water depth along the northern shelf took place
during the last glacial maximum, when the lake level was modulated by stillstands at −98 and −93 m. The post-glacial freshwater
transgressive stage of the Marmara ‘Lake’ occurred between 15 and 13.5 14C ka b.p., leading to a rise in water level to −85 m by 13.0 14C ka b.p., as evidenced by broad wave-cut terraces along the northern shelf. Since 12 14C ka b.p., high-frequency sea-level fluctuations have been identified at the SoM entrance to the Strait of İstanbul (SoI). Thus, wave-cut
terraces have been recorded at water depths of −76 and −71 m that, according to an age model for core MD04-2750, have ages
of 11.5 and 10.5 14C ka b.p., respectively. Ancient shoreline at −65 m along the northern shelf presumably formed soon after the Younger Dryas (YD) at
ca. 10.1 14C ka b.p. Moreover, there is compelling evidence of Holocene outflow from the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea. At the SoM entrance
to the SoI, the existence of bioherms on the reflector surface together with abundant Brizalina spathulata and Protoglobulimina pupoides in a core suggests a return to higher salinities due to strong Mediterranean water incursion into the SoM at ∼8.8 14C ka b.p. This finding is consistent with earlier suggestions that, after the YD, the Black Sea was flooded by outflow from the SoM
as a result of global sea-level rise. 相似文献
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N. O. Chistyakova E. V. Ivanova B. Risebrobakken E. A. Ovsepyan Ya. S. Ovsepyan 《Oceanology》2010,50(4):573-581
Environmental changes in the surface and bottom water layers of the Ingøydjupet Basin and the history of the Atlantic Water inflow to the southwestern Barents Sea during the last 16 ka are reconstructed based on planktic and benthic foraminiferal assemblages. The multiproxy study of sediment cores PSh-5159R and PSh-5159N, including AMS 14C dating, provides a time resolution of about 200 years for the deglaciation, 100 years for the Holocene, and 25–50 years for the last 400 years. Stable polar conditions with the sea ice at the surface were typical for the Early Deglaciation period. Unstable bottom settings and the onset of ice rafting marked the Oldest Dryas. The cold Atlantic Water inflow increased notably during the Bölling-Alleröd interstadial nearby the site location and then decreased during the Younger Dryas. The initial Holocene was characterized by abrupt warming in bottom and surface water layers, especially ~9.7–7.6 ka BP. Stable conditions prevailed during the Middle Holocene. Remarkable changes in the sea-surface temperature and bottom environments occurred during the last 2.5 cal. ka BP. 相似文献
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Origin of pockmarks and chimney structures on the flanks of the Storegga Slide,offshore Norway 总被引:3,自引:1,他引:2
Seafloor pockmarks and subsurface chimney structures are common on the Norwegian continental margin north of the Storegga
Slide scar. Such features are generally inferred to be associated with fluid expulsion, and imply overpressures in the subsurface.
Six long gravity and piston cores taken from the interior of three pockmarks were compared with four other cores taken from
the same area but outside the pockmarks, in order to elucidate the origins and stratigraphy of these features and their possible
association with the Storegga Slide event. Sulfate gradients in cores from within pockmarks are less steep than those in cores
from outside the pockmarks, which indicates that the flux of methane to the seafloor is presently smaller within the pockmarks
than in the adjacent undisturbed sediments. This suggests that these subsurface chimneys are not fluid flow conduits lined
with gas hydrate. Methane-derived authigenic carbonates and Bathymodiolus shells obtained from a pockmark at >6.3 m below the seafloor indicate that methane was previously available to support a
chemosynthetic community within the pockmark. AMS 14C measurements of planktonic Foraminifera overlying and interlayered with the shell-bearing sediment indicate that methane
was present on the seafloor within the pockmark prior to 14 ka 14C years b.p., i.e., well before the last major Storegga Slide event (7.2 ka 14C years b.p., or 8.2 ka calendar years b.p.). These observations provide evidence that overpressured fluids existed within the continental margin sediments off Norway
during the last major advance of Pleistocene glaciation. 相似文献
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Within the Russian–German research project on “Siberian River Run-off (SIRRO)” dealing with freshwater discharge and its influence
on biological, geochemical, and geological processes in the Kara Sea, sedimentological and organic-geochemical investigations
were carried out on two well-dated sediment cores from the Yenisei Estuary area. The main goal of this study was to quantify
terrigenous organic carbon accumulation based on biomarker and bulk accumulation rate data, and its relationship to Yenisei
river discharge and climate change through Holocene times. The biomarker data in both cores clearly indicate the predominance
of terrigenous organic matter, reaching 70–100 and 50–80% of total organic carbon within and directly north of the estuary,
respectively. During the last ca. 9 cal ka b.p. represented in the studied sediment section, siliciclastic sediment and (terrigenous) organic carbon input was strongly
influenced by postglacial sea-level rise and climate-related changes in river discharge. The mid-Holocene Climatic Optimum
is documented by maximum river discharge between 8.2 and 7.3 cal ka b.p. During the last 2,000 years, river discharge probably decreased, and accumulation of both terrigenous and marine organic
carbon increased due to enhanced coagulation of fine-grained material. 相似文献
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Ken Ikehara 《Journal of Oceanography》2003,59(5):585-593
The Late Quaternary sea-ice history of the northeastern Japan Sea is discussed on the basis of the occurrence of dropstones
and ice-rafted debris (IRD) in fine sediment cores. IRD was found in all strata except those from the Holocene and oxygen
isotope stage 5.5. The largest expansion of sea ice was recognized at the last glacial maximum (LGM; oxygen isotope stage
2), when the southern margin of seasonal sea ice was probably located in the vicinity of the Matsumae Plateau. The margin
might occasionally have expanded further southward to off the Oga Peninsula. Sea ice expanded southward from mid-stage 5 to
the LGM in response to global cooling, but with much fluctuation. Sea ice remained during deglaciation until around 10 ka,
but after 10 ka it retreated northward rapidly in response to global warming and changes in surface water conditions. Greater
fluctuations in IRD were found in core GH95-1208 collected from off Rumoi, Hokkaido, Japan. More IRD was found in sediments
from late stage 3, late stage 5, and early stage 6. The fluctuations were not concordant with global climate changes (based
on the standard oxygen isotope curve), and may have been controlled by regional climate factors such as the strength of the
winter monsoon, which is related in turn to high-latitude atmospheric circulation.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and its carbon isotopic composition in sediment pore waters from the Shenhu area,northern South China Sea 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Tao Yang Shao-Yong Jiang Jing-Hong Yang Ge Lu Neng-You Wu Jian Liu Dao-Hua Chen 《Journal of Oceanography》2008,64(2):303-310
The Shenhu area is one of the most favorable places for the occurrence of gas hydrates in the northern continental slope of
the South China Sea. Pore water samples were collected in two piston cores (SH-A and SH-B) from this area, and the concentrations
of sulfate and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and its carbon isotopic composition were measured. The data revealed large
DIC variations and very negative δ
13C-DIC values. Two reaction zones, 0–3 mbsf and below 3 mbsf, are identified in the sediment system. At site SH-A, the upper
zone (0–3 mbsf) shows relatively constant sulfate and DIC concentrations and δ
13C-DIC values, possibly due to bioturbation and fluid advection. The lower zone (below 3 mbsf) displays good linear gradients
for sulfate and DIC concentrations, and δ
13C-DIC values. At site SH-B, both zones show linear gradients, but the decreasing gradients for δ
13C-DIC and SO4
2− in the lower zone below 3 mbsf are greater than those from the upper zone, 0–3 mbsf. The calculated sulfate-methane interface
(SMI) depths of the two cores are 10.0 m and 11.1 m, respectively. The depth profiles of both DIC and δ
13C-DIC showed similar characteristics as those in other gas hydrate locations in the world oceans, such as the Blake Ridge.
Overall, our results indicate an anaerobic methane oxidation (AMO) process in the sediments with large methane flux from depth
in the studied area, which might be linked to the formation of gas hydrates in this area. 相似文献
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Sergey Alexandrovich Gorbarenko Evgenia L’vovich Goldberg Michaele Kashgarian Tat’yana Alekseevna Velivetskaya Sergey Petrovich Zakharkov Vladimir Stepanovich Pechnikov Alexandr Anatol’evich Bosin Olga Yur’evna Psheneva Elena Diamilevna Ivanova 《Journal of Oceanography》2007,63(4):609-623
The paper presents the records of several paleoproductivity proxies (PP) (biogenic opal and Ba (Si_bio, Ba_bio), organic carbon
(C_org) and carbonate Ca_carb, chlorin and benthic foraminifera abundance (BFA)) in sediments of the Okhotsk Sea for the last
80 kyr with a resolution of ∼100–300 years. The sediment age model was based on the AMS 14C data, records of benthic foraminifera δ18O, paleointensity of the Earth’s geomagnetic field and magnetic susceptibility. PP values demonstrate series of severe prolonged
productivity drops in the Okhotsk Sea followed by a sharp increase during the last glaciation. On the basis of quantitative
estimations of the paleoproductivity in the Okhotsk Sea during the cold MIS 2 and warm Holocene (Gorbarenko and Goldberg,
2005), it is suggested that the millennium scale relationship in productivity-climate changes of this basin was similar: an
increase in the sea’s productivity was related with regional climate warming and vice-versa. The PP records of productivity/climate
oscillations in the Okhotsk Sea during MIS 2–4 occurred contemporaneously with the North Atlantic cold Heinrich events (HE)
and Greenland Dansgaard-Oyeshger interstadial (DOI). Observed successions of prolonged climate cooling events followed by
rapid, abrupt warming are similar to climate and environmental oscillations in the N. Atlantic and Greenland, that confirms
the millennium-scale climate changes synchronicities in the Northern Hemisphere including the far NW Pacific, the hydrology
and climate conditions of which are close to those of the Okhotsk Sea. Synchronism of the N. Hemisphere severe cooling (including
the Okhotsk Sea) with the Antarctic warming suggests that mechanisms of the “seesaw” effect (Blunier and Brook, 2001) in the
low latitude heat redistribution between high latitudes of both hemispheres were more complicated than direct NADW formation
forcing and encompasses the global atmospheric reorganization. Within the PP used a closer connection in the Okhotsk Sea millennium
oscillations was observed for the C_org, BFA and chlorin; Ba_bio increases more closely to DOI. Si_bio variability does not
show any evident correlation with productivity changes. 相似文献
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Madhusudhanan C. Manoj Meloth Thamban Natani Basavaiah Rahul Mohan 《Geo-Marine Letters》2012,32(3):251-265
Multiple proxy studies on sediment core SK 200/22a from the sub-Antarctic sector of the Indian Ocean revealed millennial-scale fluctuations in terrigenous input during the last 63,000?years. The marine isotope stages 1 (MIS 1) and MIS 3 are characterized by generally low concentrations of magnetic minerals, being dominated by fine-grained magnetite and titano-magnetite. Within the chronological constraints, periods of enhanced terrigenous input and calcite productivity over the last 63,000?years are nearly synchronous with the warming events recorded in Antarctic ice cores. An equatorward shift of the westerly wind system in association with a strengthening of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) system may have promoted wind-induced shallow-water erosion around oceanic islands, leading to enhanced terrigenous input to the core site. Major ice-rafted debris events at 13?C23, 25?C30, 45?C48 and 55?C58?ka BP are asynchronous with ??18O and carbonate productivity records. This out-of-phase relation suggests that ice-sheet dynamics and ACC intensity were the primary factors influencing ice rafting and terrigenous input to the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean, with only limited support from sea-surface warming. 相似文献
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Based on new and existing data on oxygen isotopes, alkenone-surface seawater temperature trends, planktonic foraminifers,
lithology, and clay mineral composition of piston cores, a distinct cooling event has been identified around 8,200 cal a b.p. in the middle Okinawa Trough, northwest Pacific. This corresponds to the 8,200 a b.p. cooling event recorded in many places of the Northern Hemisphere. During this event, the local temperature decreased by
1°C, and the δ18O value increased by 0.6‰. A strengthened Asian winter monsoon is the most probable cause for this event, which thus adds
further credibility to the contention that we are dealing here with a global phenomenon. 相似文献
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We present high-resolution isotopic records and cathodoluminescence studies of recently dead and live bivalve specimens from
cold seeps, in an attempt to reconstruct environmental conditions during organism growth, and thereby the possible variability
of fluid-venting activity at the seafloor. Shells of the burrowing lucinid Myrtea aff. amorpha were collected at three localities near actively venting methane seeps in the Eastern Mediterranean deep sea, using the Nautile
submersible during two French oceanographic cruises: from the Kazan mud volcano, in the vicinity of the Anaximander mounts
(MEDINAUT cruise, 1998), and from the central pockmark province and the Amon mud volcano of the Nile deep-sea fan (NAUTINIL
cruise, 2003). The oxygen and carbon isotope compositions of 18 shells from the various localities, and also from different
sites at the same locality show a rather strong scatter (1.8 < δ
18O‰ < 3.4; −10.2 < δ
13C‰ < 2.2), and values lower than those expected for carbonate precipitated at equilibrium with present-day bottom waters.
This means that warm methane-rich fluids were mixed with bottom seawater during precipitation of shell carbonates. We have
tried to determine ontogenetic age of two shells by using cathodoluminescence as a sclerochronological proxy, because the
direct counting of carbonate increments was not possible in these specimens. There is a relatively good correspondence between
cathodoluminescence trends and oxygen isotope profiles that might support the link between manganese incorporation during
growth and temperature. Eight specimens of lucinid shells were selected for high-resolution isotopic profiling. A few shells
exhibit decreasing δ
18O and δ
13C values from the umbo to the actively growing ventral shell margin, which can be attributed to the commonly observed physiologically
controlled deceleration of growth with increasing organism age, this metabolic effect corresponding to the increase of incorporation
of respiratory CO2. A few shells exhibit high-frequency δ
18O variations with an amplitude of about 1.5‰ that might be related to temperature variations controlled by fluid-venting activity.
One shell from the pockmark province of the Nile deep-sea fan records a strong, sharp δ
13C decrease of about 9‰, and extending over a 5-mm interval in the shell that can be related to a major methane release event.
Another shell from the Kazan mud volcano exhibits a progressive increase of δ
13C values from −10‰ to 0‰ with age, which might indicate decreasing methane flow throughout the organism’s life. This study
has demonstrated that bivalve shells from deep-sea cold seeps represent good indicators of variability in seepage activity
of methane-rich fluids, at various scales in both space and time. Although the precise chronology of the observed events was
not established, because shell growth rate is not known in this case, this remains a priority for future studies in such environments. 相似文献
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中国东海和南黄海沿海平原MIS 3晚期海侵层的动力模拟研究 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Abundant evidences of higher sea levels from Jiangsu and Fujian coasts have proved a marine transgression event during 30–40 ka BP, suggesting that there was a stage with high sea level and a warm climate when ice sheets shrank in the Northern Hemisphere. The duration of 30–40 ka BP spanned a period in the late Marine Isotope Stage 3(MIS 3) and was in nature an interstadial epoch during the Last Glacial period of the Quaternary. Different from the glacial period with a cold climate, this marine transgression considered as a penultimate higher sea level during the Quaternary remains a puzzle that why the evidence is contrary to the Quaternary glacial theory. It is important to understand sea level rise for these areas sensitively responding to the global changes in the future. To recognize the key issues on sea level changes, the eustatic sea level(H_S) was defined as the glaciation-climateforced sea levels, and the relative sea level change(H_R) was defined as that a sea level record was preserved in sediment that experienced multiple secondary actions of land and sea effects. On the basis as defined above, we constructed multi-level models of climate-driven glacio-eustatic changes and land-sea systems. By integrating data sets from eight borehole cores and prescribing the boundary conditions, we simulated the changes of HS and HR in the East China Sea and southern Yellow Sea areas in the late MIS 3. The marine transgression strata from the borehole core data was identified at ca. 30 m below present sea level as a result of the collective influence of ice melting water, neotectonic subsidence, sediment compaction and terrestrial sediment filling since ca. 35 ka ago,whereas the simulated relative sea-levels turned out to be –26.3––29.9 m a.s.l. The small error involved in the simulation results of ±(2.5–4.5) m demonstrated the credibility of the results. Our results indicated that sea level change in the late MIS 3 was dominated by glacial effects, in which the eustatic sea-level was between –19.2––22.1m a.s.l. The study sheds light on the nature of sea-level changes along the east coast of China in the late MIS 3 and contributes to understanding the characteristics of marine transgression under the effects of multiple complex land-sea interactions. 相似文献
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Late Pleistocene-Holocene Paleoceanography and Ventilation of the Gulf of California 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Lloyd D. Keigwin 《Journal of Oceanography》2002,58(2):421-432
Sediment cores collected in 1990 from the Gulf of California have been studied using stable isotope and radiocarbon techniques
to reconstruct the climate and ventilation histories since the last glacial maximum. Benthic foraminiferal δ18O from core tops in a water depth range of 145 to 1442 m increases by about 2% with increasing depth. This is consistent with
a composite temperature profile constructed from several hydrocasts in the various gulf basins. However, the δ18O water/salinity relationship is not sufficiently linear in gulf locations or in nearby open Pacific Geochemical Ocean Sections
Study (GEOSECS) stations to be useful in solving paleotemperature equations. Of the most common benthic foraminifera, only
Planulina ariminensis has δ13C that is consistent with the measured δ13C of ΣCO2. Several cores in the depth range 500 to 900 m have the laminated Holocene and Bolling/Allerod sediments, and the nonlaminated
glacial age and Younger Dryas sediments that are typical of the gulf and other locations such as Santa Barbara Basin. The
best of those, Jumbo Piston Core (JPC) 56 from 818 m water depth on the western margin of Guaymas Basin, was sampled for intensive
study. Oxygen isotope ratios in benthic and planktonic foraminifera show little evidence for deglacial temperature oscillations.
Carbon isotope ratios are generally lower during warm epochs, but the most striking result is strongly lowered benthic and
planktonic δ13C about 9500 years ago. This may reflect water column oxidation of locally released methane. Neither benthic δ13C in depth section nor paired benthic and planktonic 14C data in JPC56 are consistent with increased intermediate water ventilation during the glacial maximum and Younger Dryas.
Likewise, 14C data from 5 pairs of foraminifera from the Okhotsk Sea fail to support better ventilation in that basin during the last
glacial maximum.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Paleoenvironmental records from the northern South China Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Core ZHS-176 contains the paleoenvironmental records from the northern South China Sea (NSCS) since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). A coupled approach based on clay mineral assemblages, planktonic foraminiferal oxygen and carbon isotopes, and calcium carbonate content is used to trace the sources of the fine-grained sediment and to investigate the paleoenviornmental evolution in this area. Clay mineral assemblages are dominated by illite (average about 39%) and chlorite (about 27%), which comes mainly from Taiwan and the East China Sea. Kaolinite, which accounts for about 13%, comes mainly from the Zhujiang (Pearl) River, and Luzon Island is the main source for smectite (about 21%). The planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopic oscillations during the last glacial period are coeval with climate variations recorded in the Greenland ice core and Western Pacific sediment. These variations include the LGM, Heinrich event 1, Bφlling-Allerφd (B/A), and Younger Dryas. For the Holocene, three periods of strong precipitation (S1-S3) and three periods of weak precipitation (W1-W3) are identified. The oxygen isotopic record exhibits corre-lation with climate records from distant regions, including the high-latitude Northern Hemisphere, providing evidence for global tele-connection among regional climate. A brief, negative planktonic foraminiferal carbon isotopic excursion during B/A reflects increased methane released from marine gas hydrate due to the rapid warming of the water. By comparing calcium carbonate content curves of the core ZHS-176 with these of other five boreholes lying above the lysocline, a remarkable low calcium carbonate event is found during the early Holocene in NSCS. 相似文献
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《Marine Geology》1999,153(1-4):221-237
The Quaternary climate of southern Europe (south Italy and Greece) is investigated by pollen analysis of the sapropels which were deposited in the deep eastern Mediterranean Sea during the last 1 million year (Ma). The time-scale of core KC01b in the Ionian Sea has been established by tuning its oxygen isotopic record to the ice volume model of Imbrie and Imbrie (1980). For the last 250,000 year (250 ka), the previous pollen studies and astronomical tuning have been confirmed. Sapropels were deposited under a large range of Mediterranean climates: fully interglacial, fully glacial, and intermediary, as revealed mainly by the balance between the respective pollen abundances of oak (Quercus) and sage-brush (Artemisia). The high value of the oak reveals the warm and wet climate of an Interglacial, and the high value of the sage-brush, the dry and cold climate of a Glacial. Whereas the Mediterranean climate is directly related to the variation of the high-latitude ice sheets, the deposition of sapropels is not so. In contrast with the wide climatic range, sapropels were deposited only when summer insolation in the low latitudes reached its highest peaks. However, between 250 ka and 1 Ma, that stable pattern is not yet established. Only six sapropels are observed, many expected ones do not appear, even as ghosts signalled by peaks of barium abundance, that remain after the post-deposition oxidation of organic matter. The pattern of sapropel formation in stable and direct relationship to highest insolation does not seem to apply. For five of those sapropels, neither climate extremes are observed; they mainly formed during intermediary types of Mediterranean climate. In contrast, one sapropel (and one ghost) relates to a relatively low peak of insolation, and its climate is of a unique, composite type not seen later. This might suggest an unsuspected, more complex pattern linking the formation of Mediterranean sapropels to the astronomical configuration. 相似文献
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Detailed 14C AMS data and isotope based stratigraphies from high-resolution paleoceanographic records for the last 22 ka of cores from
the upper continental slope off NE Brazil reveal sedimentation rates of up to 100 cm per 1000 yr. Variations in the sediment
composition relate to changes in the input of terrigenous material. The sedimentation is controlled by sea level and by the
climatic regime of the hinterland. Short-term changes in the tropical wind field may act as a climatic trigger. The zonality
of the SE trades was probably increased and the monsoonal activity over Africa reduced during the Younger Dryas period. 相似文献
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O. S. Chauhan B. S. Sukhija A. R. Gujar P. Nagabhushanam A. L. Paropkari 《Geo-Marine Letters》2000,20(2):118-122
Down-core variations in illite, chlorite, smectite and kaolinite (the major clays) in two 14C-dated cores collected along the SW continental margin of India show that illite and chlorite have enhanced abundance during
20–17, 12.5, 11–9.5, and 5–4.8 ka b.p., whereas smectite accumulation is higher between 17 and 12.5, and after 9 ka b.p. The climate may have been predominantly arid at 17 (20–17), 12.5, 10.5 (11–9.5), and 4.8 ka b.p. The first three dates correspond to the last glacial maximum, Bolling-Allerod, and Younger Dryas events, respectively. The
SW monsoon was variable between 17 and 15 ka b.p., and it was more stable and intense after the Younger Dryas until about 6 ka b.p.
Received: 2 December 1999 / Revision accepted: 11 April 2000 相似文献
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为了解自末次间冰期以来这一地区的古海水表层温度变化,应用气相色谱技术对取自冲绳海槽东侧的Z14?6孔的长链(C37)不饱和烯酮进行了分析。结果发现,该孔Uk37在0.83—0.95之间,其变化趋势与两种浮游有孔虫N.dutertrei和G.sacculifer的氧同位素组成一致。根据Uk37重建的SST在24.0—27.5℃之间变化,最高值27.5℃出现在MIS-5,最低值24℃出现在MIS-2(LGM)。从LGM到全新世SST增加约2℃。这与早期在附近地区根据Uk37重建的SST变化趋势一致。根据重建的SST自LGM以来的变化,作者认为现代黑潮洋流系统最晚在约10kaB.P.后已在冲绳海槽重新建立。许多早期研究揭示的黑潮在7.5—7kaB.P.的加强可能与全新世大暖期有关。 相似文献