青土湖沉积物粒度特征及其古环境意义

青土湖沉积物的粒度特征反映了青土湖降水、水动力搬运强度以及湖面水位高低的变化。利用石羊河古终端湖泊青土湖剖面沉积物的粒度资料，分析了粒度组成、粒度参数等粒度特征，并探讨了古终端湖泊的沉积环境。结果表明青土湖从11000aBP年以来大致经历了4次极端干旱时期和4次温暖时期。通过对青土湖沉积物粒度频率曲线的分析，讨论了湖泊的几种可能沉积作用，区分出了湖相沉积、风成沉积浅湖相沉积以及水流和风力作用混合沉积，从而揭示了沉积时的古环境特征。青土湖全新世以来的环境演变，具有连续和沉积速率大的特点，不仅可以作为古环境与古气候变化的自然记录，而且为研究本区土地退化、荒漠化等问题提供了自然背景。     

内蒙古黄旗海湖泊沉积物粒度指示的湖面变化过程

内蒙古黄旗海是位于东亚夏季风尾闾与冬季风腹地的一个封闭流域,其湖泊沉积敏感并反映了区域冬夏季风变化的历史。基于黄旗海北部湖滩上的H3剖面,在高分辨率年代序列的基础上,利用粒度特征,特别是沉积物各粒级的时间序列变化特征,探讨了古湖泊水位变化、剖面沉积环境过程与冬季风的风尘记录。研究结果表明,8.0~5.1 ka BP,气候暖湿,湖泊水量丰富,为相对稳定的深水-半深水环境,为全新世气候最适宜期,降尘微弱;但在6.7~5.5 ka BP期间存在两次明显的湖面回落,降沉剧烈的气候恶化事件,揭示了气候适宜期气候也存在短暂的不稳定性。5.1~4.0 ka BP,气候逐渐变得冷干,风力作用较强,降尘加剧,湖面波动较大;3.6~2.2 ka BP,剖面所在位置演变为浅滩沼泽相,并可能季节性暴露地表。     

兴化XH-1孔记录的苏北盆地晚新生代沉积体系及环境变化过程

通过对位于苏北盆地中部的兴化XH-1孔350.08 m连续岩芯的古地磁测年,确定了年代地层序列.在此基础上,对钻孔沉积物进行了以粒度特征为重点,包括矿物组成、结构、沉积构造和沉积组合在内的综合岩相古地理分析,划分出8个沉积相和19个沉积亚相.并根据沉积相的组合特征,将苏北盆地3.20Ma以来的沉积环境演化划分为沉降盆地...     

长江中游沿江牛轭湖沉积及其环境意义——以长江荆江段天鹅洲、中洲子为例

以长江中游荆江段天鹅洲和中洲子(牛轭湖)为对象,通过对其沉积物柱样进行210Pb、137Cs、粒度、磁学测试分析,建立了牛轭湖沉积的基本序列、沉积特点与年代学框架。研究表明:1牛轭湖沉积为A-B层,A层(下层)为河相沉积层和河/湖过渡层,B层(上层)为湖相沉积层,沉积物粒径在剖面上呈"粗—细—粗"变化特点。2对于近现代牛轭湖,笼统运用放射性核素(如210Pb)比活度计算的平均沉积速率推测沉积物年代,会产生较大误差,需运用其他沉积特征参数和近现代环境变化事件记录进行多重校核。3牛轭湖沉积可以较好地记录河流流域洪水事件,可为重建古洪水事件提供借鉴。牛轭湖沉积较其他湖泊沉积更为复杂,相关研究尚待继续深入。     

新疆博斯腾湖全新世沉积磁性矿物组成与沉积环境探讨北大核心CSCD

中国西北干旱区湖泊沉积物存在磁性矿物种类复杂和磁化率普遍偏低等问题,使得利用环境磁学手段重建古环境、古气候的方法受到了限制。选择新疆博斯腾湖BST12B钻孔顶部岩芯(深度0~2.5 m)不同沉积相的代表性样品,进行载磁性矿物富集,并将原样品和富集获得的样品分别做XRD(X荧光衍射)岩石矿物检测。结果显示,所有湖相样品中均有黄铁矿和磁铁矿检出,而没有磁黄铁矿和针铁矿检出,说明博斯腾湖全新世湖相沉积物的主要磁性矿物是磁铁矿,并含有少量黄铁矿;富集获得的样品中粘土矿物(如绿泥石等)含量明显增加,石英、长石和方解石含量降低,富集后的残留样品的磁化率大幅度降低,说明粘土矿物对干旱区湖泊沉积物的磁学贡献不容忽视。结合沉积物粒度、色度、硫元素含量以及沉积物磁性矿物的组合特征推断,黄铁矿可以作为湖泊高水位的指示矿物种类,因而具有重建湖泊古水位变化的潜力,并应用到博斯腾湖的全新世湖泊环境重建,发现博斯腾湖BST12B钻孔位置早全新世为接近氧化环境的浅湖相环境,而中晚全新世为深湖相沉积环境并存在一个浅水的湖滨相沉积环境。研究结果说明,利用载磁性矿物富集的方法对干旱区湖泊沉积物中所含磁性矿物进行富集后检测是开展干旱区湖泊环境磁学研究的可行手段,对研究湖泊环境变化具有重要意义。     

乌鲁木齐东道海子剖面的硅藻记录与环境演变

通过分析乌鲁木齐河尾闾湖泊东道海子剖面的硅藻记录,结合孢粉、磁化率、烧失量和粒度分析资料,以^14C测年数据为基础,讨论了天山北麓古尔班通古特沙漠南部边缘的环境演变。研究认为：东道海子地区在4900aBP～3120aBP这一时段气候较稳定,3120aBP以来,有几次波动;湖泊的高湖面期与气候的冷期对应,湖泊的盐碱度较低,硅藻以及水生、沼生植物生长较繁盛;湖泊的中湖面期与气候的暖期对应,湖泊的盐碱度较高,硅藻以及水生、沼生植物生长较稀少。     

新疆博斯腾湖全新世沉积磁性矿物组成与沉积环境探讨

中国西北干旱区湖泊沉积物存在磁性矿物种类复杂和磁化率普遍偏低等问题,使得利用环境磁学手段重建古环境、古气候的方法受到了限制。选择新疆博斯腾湖BST12B钻孔顶部岩芯(深度0~2.5 m)不同沉积相的代表性样品,进行载磁性矿物富集,并将原样品和富集获得的样品分别做XRD(X荧光衍射)岩石矿物检测。结果显示,所有湖相样品中均有黄铁矿和磁铁矿检出,而没有磁黄铁矿和针铁矿检出,说明博斯腾湖全新世湖相沉积物的主要磁性矿物是磁铁矿,并含有少量黄铁矿;富集获得的样品中粘土矿物(如绿泥石等)含量明显增加,石英、长石和方解石含量降低,富集后的残留样品的磁化率大幅度降低,说明粘土矿物对干旱区湖泊沉积物的磁学贡献不容忽视。结合沉积物粒度、色度、硫元素含量以及沉积物磁性矿物的组合特征推断,黄铁矿可以作为湖泊高水位的指示矿物种类,因而具有重建湖泊古水位变化的潜力,并应用到博斯腾湖的全新世湖泊环境重建,发现博斯腾湖BST12B钻孔位置早全新世为接近氧化环境的浅湖相环境,而中晚全新世为深湖相沉积环境并存在一个浅水的湖滨相沉积环境。研究结果说明,利用载磁性矿物富集的方法对干旱区湖泊沉积物中所含磁性矿物进行富集后检测是开展干旱区湖泊环境磁学研究的可行手段,对研究湖泊环境变化具有重要意义。     

滇池700年来气候变化与人类活动的湖泊环境响应研究

通过对滇池剖面沉积物质量磁化率、δ18O、δ13C同位素、粒度、矿物成分、CaCO3、有机质、铁、粘土矿物元素的测定,利用210Pb测年,恢复了滇池地区近700年来的气候变化。通过对湖泊沉积记录的分析,发现滇池经历了两个高湖水期和一个低湖水期,具有明显的200年气候周期性;本区气候变化具有冷湿-暖干的气候变化特征。滇池沉积记录包含了人类活动的信息,揭示了人类疏挖海口河,改变了湖泊沉积速率;最近十几年,工农业活动污染物进入湖泊,改变了湖泊的营养度,是滇池迅速富营养化的阶段。     

阿拉斯加巴罗AB—67钻孔岩芯的沉积环境分析

巴罗ＡＢ－６７钻孔岩芯的４８个样品被进行了２５个项目的粒度分析和４４个项目的地球化学分析。本文对这些数据进行了Ｑ型因子分析,并得到了４个主因子。研究表明,这４个因子分别代表了沉积环境的四项指标,它们分别为沉积速率,降水,海平面和温度。从岩芯顶部５个样品与巴罗气象台观测记录研究了古温度和古降水的转换函数,从＾２１０Ｐｂ测年和几个环境事件确定了沉积速率的转换函数。     

福建斗湖表层沉积物的粒度特征及其环境意义

湖泊沉积物粒度组成及特征主要受沉积物沉积时的动力条件和搬运特征控制,从而可以记录湖面水文信息的变化。基于对东南沿海高海拔湖泊斗湖表层和流域范围表层沉积物样品粒度的测试,利用沉积物粒度多组分分析方法,分析了表层沉积物的组分特征,探讨了斗湖表层沉积物粒度变化的环境意义。结果显示,斗湖表层沉积物主要为黏土质粉砂,沉积形式主要以悬浮沉积为主。其次,粒度频率曲线呈多峰特征,利用多组分分析方法从湖泊样品中解析出5个组分,其粒径分别为0.64~0.74μm,2.2~4.0μm,10.5~16.4μm,61~110μm和265~436μm,而流域沉积物样品仅存在前4个组分。再次,通过与汇水盆地表层沉积物粒度特征的对比,推断出斗湖沉积物粒度特征主要受湖泊南北方向水动力变化控制,揭示出斗湖沉积物是重建东南沿海地区古环境演化的潜在载体。     

藏南沉错沉积物的粒度特征及其古环境意义

通过对藏南沉错粒度参数的分析 ,并结合与其它环境代用指标的比较 ,可以将本地区约 1 40 0年来环境变化分为四个阶段 :约 5 93A.D.～ 82 1 A.D.是湖泊水位相对较高而且变化频繁的时期 ,反映了波动较大且比较湿润的气候状况 ;约 82 1 A.D.～ 1 343A.D.是一个较长的气候相对稳定时期 ,粒度指示该阶段湖泊扩张 ,湖面升高 ,反映了湿润的气候状况 ;约 1 343A.D.～ 1 892 A.D.是一个气候波动十分剧烈且频繁的时期 ,其中约 1 60 2 A.D.前后可能出现了一次短时间的流水突然增加 ,而在这前后各有一个浅水阶段 ( 1 343A.D.～ 1 5 1 2 A.D.和 1 670 A.D.～ 1 892 A.D.) ,反映了湖泊补给程度的减弱 ;1 892 A.D.～1 998A.D.是一个相对稳定的时期 ,湖面变化不太明显 ,而 1 892 A.D.前后具有一个明显的补给水动力减弱的变化。粒度参数所反映的湖面波动与环境变化得到了其他环境代用指标较好的支持。     

青藏高原西北部17000年以来的介形类及环境演变

通过班公错和松西错两钻孔以及红山湖地层剖面的介形类分析，讨论了昆仑山、喀喇昆仑山地区晚更新世晚期以来的主要气候事件和环境变迁。     

Climatically controlled lacustrine clinoforms: Theory and modelling results

Lacustrine basins and their deposits are good paleoclimate recorders and contain rich energy resources. Shelf-margin clinoforms do exist in deep lacustrine basins, but with striking differences from those in deep marine basins, caused by a correlation between the river-derived sediment supply and the lake level. This study uses empirical relationships to calculate the water and sediment discharge from rivers and coeval lake level during wet–dry cycles at 10 s of ky time scale. Sediment supply and lake-level changes are used for a stratigraphic forward model to understand how lacustrine clinoforms develop under different climate conditions. The results show that both wet and dry cycles can be associated with thick deep-water fan deposits, supporting the existing climate-driven lacustrine model proposed based on field data (e.g. Neogene Pannonian Basin and Eocene Uinta Basin). The wet period with high sediment supply and rising lake level creates the highly aggradational shelf, progradational slope and thick bottomset deposits. This is contrary from marine basin settings where the presence of rising shelf-margin trajectory commonly indicates limited deep-water fan deposits. This work suggests marine-based stratigraphic models cannot be directly applied to lacustrine basins.     

临夏盆地三千万年来沉积物粒度特征及其构造意义*

本文通过对临夏盆地长达30m.y.的连续沉积(临夏群)共计779个样品的粒度特征分析,划分出七大完整的沉积旋回。粒度曲线明显地表示出青藏高原的强烈隆升始于距今3.4Ma前。该文还初步确定出青藏高原地区两次夷平过程最终结束的年代。     

Upper Triassic – Jurassic sequence stratigraphy and its structural controls in the western Ordos Basin, China

Upper Triassic, Lower–Middle Jurassic and Upper Jurassic strata in the western Ordos Basin of North China are interpreted as three unconformity-bounded basin phases, BP-4, BP-5 and BP-6, respectively. The three basin phases were deposited in three kinds of predominantly continental basin: (1) a Late Triassic composite basin with a south-western foreland subbasin and a north-western rift subbasin, (2) an Early–Middle Jurassic sag basin and (3) a Late Jurassic foreland molasse wedge. Within the Late Triassic composite basin BP-4 includes three sequences, S4-1, S4-2 and S4-3. In the south-western foreland subbasin, the three sequences are the depositional response to three episodes of thrust load subsidence, and are mainly composed of alluvial fan, steep-sloped lacustrine delta and fluvial systems in front of a thrust fault-bounded basin flank. In the north-western rift subbasin, the three sequences are the depositional response to three episodes of rift subsidence, and consist of alluvial fan – braid plain and fan delta systems basinward of a normal fault-bounded basin margin. In the sag basin BP-5 includes four sequences, S5-1, S5-2, S5-3 and S5-4, which reflect four episodes of intracratonic sagging events and mainly consist of fluvial, gentle-gradient lacustrine delta and lacustrine systems sourced from peripheral uplifted flanks. BP-6, deposited in the foreland-type basin, includes one sequence, S6-1, which is the depositional response to thrust load subsidence and is composed of alluvial fan systems. The formation and development of these three kinds of basins was controlled by Late Triassic and Jurassic multi-episode tectonism of basin-bounding orogenic belts, which were mainly driven by collision of the North China and South China blocks and subduction of the western Pacific plate.     

Quaternary sediment in the Yichang area: Implications for the formation of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River

Sediment data from the Yichang area in the Jianghan Basin of Hubei Province in China suggest deposition in a lacustrine environment prior to 0.75 Ma, B.P., followed by incision of the Yangtze River. The earliest Quaternary Yunchi Formation accumulated in an alluvial fan to fan-delta environment. The subsequent Shanxiyao Formation was deposited in an environment that changed from fan-delta to lacustrine. The distribution of sedimentary facies suggests the presence of a lake in the Yichang area prior to 0.75 Ma, B.P. The lack of sediments contemporaneous with the Yunchi and Shanxiyao Formations in other areas of the Jianghan Basin, suggests that this ancient lake was limited to the Yichang area. This lake predates the present Yangtze River in the Yichang area and the Jianghan basin. Provenance studies of gravels in the Yunchi and Shanxiyao Formations, as well as gravels in terraces and the channel of the Yangtze River indicate a variety of sediment sources, but suggest that no material from the area west of the Three Gorges had been carried into the Yichang area prior to 0.75 Ma, B.P. The Yangtze River cut through Three Gorges area only after 0.75 Ma, B.P.     

韩江三角洲地貌发育的新认识

韩江三角洲从晚更新世中期开始沉积,经历了Q_3~(2-1)的古冲积扇、Q_3~(2-2)的占三角洲、Q_3~3的风化和新冲积扇、Q_4~1—Q_4~(2-1)的新三角洲、Q_4~(2-2)的贝壳堤和沼泽以及Q_4~3的沙堤-泻湖等六个发育阶段。发育模式为河流冲积扇与三角洲的交替发展。重新划分了三角洲的界线,面积为915.08km~2。划分出二类十亚类地貌类型。     

河套盆地西山咀凸起区湖相地层的发现及其测年

在位于河套盆地内部的西山咀凸起区发现了典型的湖滩岩、湖蚀平台和一套较完整的湖相沉积地层。基于海拔高程的推断,地貌和地层沉积记录指示西山咀地区曾经存在过一个海拔达到1080 m上下的古湖面。完整的沉积地层反映西山咀凸起区经历了深湖相-滨湖相-冲洪积相-风成堆积的演变过程。光释光测年结果表明,在距今65 ka 前后,“吉兰泰-河套”古大湖在西山咀地区曾经连通;但在距今约50~30 ka 湖面再没有上涨。这一研究表明：在MIS 3 阶段某一时期,该地区的古湖面发生衰退。随后,再没有发育高于“吉兰泰-河套”古大湖最高湖面的湖泊。     

Impact of recycling and lateral sediment input on grain size fining trends—Implications for reconstructing tectonic and climate forcings in ancient sedimentary systems

Grain size trends in basin stratigraphy are thought to preserve a rich record of the climatic and tectonic controls on landscape evolution. Stratigraphic models assume that over geological timescales, the downstream profile of sediment deposition is in dynamic equilibrium with the spatial distribution of tectonic subsidence in the basin, sea level and the flux and calibre of sediment supplied from mountain catchments. Here, we demonstrate that this approach in modelling stratigraphic responses to environmental change is missing a key ingredient: the dynamic geomorphology of the sediment routing system. For three large alluvial fans in the Iglesia basin, Argentine Andes we measured the grain size of modern river sediment from fan apex to toe and characterise the spatial distribution of differential subsidence for each fan by constructing a 3D model of basin stratigraphy from seismic data. We find, using a self‐similar grain size fining model, that the profile of grain size fining on all three fans cannot be reproduced given the subsidence profile measured and for any sediment supply scenario. However, by adapting the self‐similar model, we demonstrate that the grain size trends on each fan can be effectively reproduced when sediment is not only sourced from a single catchment at the apex of the system, but also laterally, from tributary catchments and through fan surface recycling. Without constraint on the dynamic geomorphology of these large alluvial systems, signals of tectonic and climate forcing in grain size data are masked and would be indecipherable in the geological record. This has significant implications for our ability to make sensitive, quantitative reconstructions of external boundary conditions from the sedimentary record.     

Response of a proglacial delta to rapid high‐amplitude lake‐level change: an integration of outcrop data and high‐resolution shear wave seismics

In this paper, we will present the stratigraphic evolution, internal facies architecture and geomorphology of the Middle Pleistocene Emme delta, controlled by rapid high‐amplitude lake‐level change. The Emme delta was deposited on the northern margin of glacial Lake Weser, located in north‐west Germany. Rates of lake‐level rise were probably >50 mm year^?1 and rates of lake‐level fall 30–50 m within a few days or weeks, due to the opening of lake outlets. We use digital elevation models, sedimentology and shear wave seismics to improve earlier reconstructions and investigate the influence of rapid base‐level change on delta development. Shear wave seismic data resolve architectural elements in the range of metres and bridge the common gap between outcrop and conventional compression wave seismic data. The radial delta complex is about 2 km long, 1.8 km wide and up to 70 m thick, overlying a concave, up to 13° steep dipping ramp surface. It consists of vertically and laterally stacked delta lobes, caused by lobe switching during base‐level change. During the lake‐level rise, vertically stacked (Gilbert‐type) delta systems formed. The decrease in thickness and lateral extent indicates a rapid upslope shift of depocentres. A high rate and magnitude of lake‐level fall (50 m) promoted the development of a single incised valley and the deposition of forced regressive coarse‐grained delta lobes in front of the valley. The incised valley was filled during decreasing rates of lake‐level fall and low base‐level, because the alluvial gradient was larger than the emergent lake profile. Attached sand‐rich forced regressive aprons formed during lower magnitudes of lake‐level falls in the range of 30–35 m. Valley incision occurred, but was limited to the uppermost portion of the delta, controlled by the steep slope. The incised valley related to the final lake drainage is associated with long‐wavelength (60–90 m) bedforms at the downslope end, attributed to the formation of standing waves as a result of a hydraulic jump. Estimated palaeoflow depth during standing wave formation was ～9–14 m and flow velocity was 10–12 m s^?1. Because subsidence, waves or tides did not play a major role, the Emme delta can be used as an analogue‐based predictive stratigraphical and sedimentological model for steep glacigenic deltas controlled by rapid base‐level change and can help to understand better the facies distribution and three‐dimensional geometry of these depositional systems.