中国热带珊瑚礁的第四纪气候记录

珊瑚礁剖面的氧碳同位素、地球化学、造礁珊瑚生长带等分析结果表明,珊瑚礁记录了第四纪气候波动的基本轮廓.早更新世总体趋暖,但至少有4个旋回.中更新世总体趋冷,但至少有7个旋回.晚更新世气候剧烈波动,但总体变化为两个前暖后冷的旋回.全新世为回暖-升温-降温的波动.历史时期约1 700 a来有4个前冷后暖的旋回.近200 a的气候波动表现为前百年正距平,后百年以负距平为主,但总体趋暖.     

中国热带第四纪气候波动特征

中国热带早更新世气候波动以高频率小幅度为特征。“中更新世革命”发生在MIS20／MIS21之交。中更新世气候波动一般为三大旋回。晚更新世为两大旋回,但有变暖事件D／01～21及变冷事件H1～H6的表现。可以识别末次间冰期MISS及其阶段5a～5e。末次亚间冰期有4～7次冷暖波动。末次冰期温度一般比今低1～2℃或3～5℃。终止点Ⅰ为15000～13670aB．P．。终止点Ⅱ为0．135～0．130MaB．P．。新冰期Ⅰ、Ⅱ、Ⅲ都有表现。历史时期出现南北朝冷期、北宋冷期、明清小冰期。近200a的气候,前百年升温,后百年降温。     

中国热带气候地貌几个问题的讨论

中国热带气候长期热湿,气候地貌的基本特征表现为强烈风化和持续剥蚀夷平,缺乏地貌的世代演替,所谓"双重风化"和"双重夷平"的经典概念,未必切合中国热带的实际情况.中国热带第四纪气候波动不明显,但是这种波动在气候地貌上仍有反映.红土砾石台地代表中更新世冷湿(砾石堆积)转热干(红土化)的气候地貌.老红砂台地代表晚更新世至全新世热干(风积)转热湿(红土化、古土壤)的气候地貌.海岸贝壳堤反映中全新世风暴潮增强的气候波动.广东、海南的所谓"冰臼群"实乃河流地貌的瓯穴.中国热带末次冰期的冰川遗迹仅见于台湾岛中央山脉.     

中国热带第四纪气候波动的海陆对比

古气候分析典型实例的对比．表明中国热带第四纪的气候波动，海域与陆域的差异主要出现在早、中更新世及末次盛冰期，而晚更新世以来直至历史时期，海陆的气候波动基本同步。中国热带万年尺度的气候变化．既受地球轨道参数的驱动，亦受季风环流的影响；千年和百年尺度的气候变化，与太阳常数本身的变化有关。     

萨拉乌苏河流域米浪沟湾剖面主元素记录的末次间冰阶气候波动

 位于鄂尔多斯高原萨拉乌苏河米浪沟湾剖面是重建毛乌素沙地晚更新世以来古气候的理想地点。其末次间冰阶(MIS3)层序含4种沉积相,划分为19个沉积单元,构成9.5个风成的砂丘砂与河流相、湖相和古土壤交替的沉积旋回。主元素分析结果显示,该剖面MIS3层序中河流相、湖相和古土壤的Al2O3、TOFE、CaO、MgO、K2O、Na2O、TiO2含量明显高于古风成砂, 而SiO2则相反, 构成与沉积旋回相应的9.5个元素波动旋回。这些元素旋回指示了该地末次间冰阶至少经历了10次温湿(W事件)和9次冷干(C事件)气候波动,且可划分为MIS3e(58.90~49.50 ka BP)、MIS3d(49.50~40.70 ka BP)、MIS3c(40.70~36.90 ka BP)、MIS3b(36.90~27.00 ka BP)和MIS3a(27.00~22.30 ka BP)等5个亚段。其中, 19次冷/暖波动可与格陵兰GRIP冰芯δ18O冰段/间冰段大致对应, 5个亚段与我国古里雅冰芯和V23-81冷性浮游有孔虫数代表的北大西洋地区气候也具有较好的可比性。     

珠江口万顷沙晚第四纪沉积及古环境重建

选取位于珠江口万顷沙ZK316-2钻孔进行孢粉、硅藻和岩性等分析,重建了珠江口晚更新世以来的海侵海退旋回和古环境特征。孢粉和硅藻分析表明：晚更新世期间该区域主要经历了一次大的海侵海退,期间有2次小的海平面波动。晚更新世地层海相特征明显,孢粉组合指示了温暖湿润的气候环境,其植被以南亚热带常绿林为主,孢粉组合以青冈属、蕈树属、金缕梅科等亚热带种属为主,期间出现的海桑属推测为滨海相沉积,指示了当时海平面的位置。晚更新世的海相沉积尽管14C测年结果为老于30 ka左右,但经过区域孢粉组合、硅藻特征、海平面高度等因素的综合对比分析后认为：下部海相层的年代更可能属于MIS 5期,而期间2次短暂的低海面记录可能与5b和5d海平面波动有关。钻孔上部13.9 m以上为全新世2 232 cal. a B.P.以来的沉积,孢粉分析表明植被仍以亚热带常绿林为主,但人类干扰因素的禾本科、松属、芒箕和火灾记录（炭屑）大量增加,指示了沿海人类活动增强和大规模农业的发展,这与全新世晚期海平面下降和三角洲的快速加积作用基本同步进行。     

巴丹吉林查格勒布剖面记录的150 ka BP以来的常量化学元素波动

 巴丹吉林沙漠查格勒布剖面150 ka BP以来存在25个由风成沙丘砂与黄土、古土壤、湖相和冲坡积砂土砾石层构成的沉积旋回。剖面常量化学元素分析显示:湖相、黄土和古土壤中的Al2O3、Fe2O3+FeO、CaO、MgO、K2O、Na2O和TiO含量基本上高于风成沙丘砂,而SiO2则呈相反变化,构成了与沉积旋回相应的150 ka BP以来25个元素变化旋回。剖面中各元素的这种分布和集散规律也与元素的富集系数和淋失系数波动一致。研究表明,暖湿气候作用下稳定性元素Al2O3、TOFe、TiO和非稳定性元素CaO、MgO、Na2O、K2O都能相对富集,与剖面所处的特殊的洼地地貌位置有关。常量化学元素的综合分析表明,这种元素变化旋回是由巴丹吉林沙漠晚更新世以来的干寒多风与温湿至暖湿气候变化所致,其根本原因与冰期、间冰期气候波动影响下东亚冬夏季风的“拉锯式”摆动有关。     

萨拉乌苏动物群

目前在萨拉乌苏地区共发现脊椎动物化石４６种，其中哺乳类３４种，鸟类１２种。本文根据新采集到的８０多件化石的出产层位和对前人资料的分析，把全部化石按地层即萨拉乌苏组、城川组和大沟湾组作了统计。并根据地层划分和化石种类的变化，新建立了城川动物群。萨拉乌苏动物群和城川动物群在时代上分别属于晚更新世中期和晚更新世中期之末到晚更新世晚期，代表较暖湿和干冷的气候环境。     

萨拉乌苏河流域MGS2层段主要氧化物变化及其指示的气候波动

萨拉乌苏河流域与MIS2相同时代的MGS2地层段记录了5.5个由风成砂与河流相或湖沼相构成的沉积旋回,通过对各沉积旋回的主要氧化物分析表明：河湖相中Al2O3、TOFE、K2O、MgO、CaO、Na2O、TiO含量通常明显高于风成砂,而SiO2含量则呈现相反的变化,构成了与沉积旋回相对应的5.5个主要氧化物变化旋回。结合各主要氧化物的化学迁移特性和剖面所在区域的地貌特征进行分析,认为该剖面的主要氧化物变化旋回是气候波动的反映,一个主要氧化物含量变动旋回指示了一个干冷-暖湿旋回,也即一个冬夏季风先后演替的气候旋回。MGS2持续的时间仅为12 ka,一个冬夏季风环境的变化大致平均仅需要2 ka,一个冬季风或者夏季风环境的平均持续时间大约1 ka。显然,这是一个千年尺度的环境变化。研究还表明,MGS2气候波动与晚冰期气候变化以及相关的Heinrich事件具有良好的对应关系。可以推断,MGS2记录的千年尺度环境变化是全球环境变化在本区域的反映。     

第四纪中国热带对全球气候变化的响应

根据20多个有关沉积、δ18O、孢粉、石笋等分析实例,并与代表全球变化的气候曲线进行对比,认为中国热带万年尺度气候变化的机制,早更新世为轨道驱动,中更新世为季风环流的非轨道驱动,晚更新世为轨道驱动,这个过程与青藏高原隆起的高度和速率有关.晚更新世的千年尺度变化和小冰期的百年尺度变化,其机制是受太阳常数周期性变化的影响.     

中国热带第四纪动物群与气候波动

About 70 examples of Quaternary fauna in China‘s tropics are enumerated in this paper. Of which about 40% of the examples can be found even in cooling stages, showing the smaller amplitude of climatic fluctuation during Quaternary. According to the temporal and spatial distribution of tropical faunas, the following characters of climate variation can be evidenced: two main cycles in Early Pleistocene, three main cycles in Middle Pleistocene, two main cycles in Late Pleistocene and Holocene Megathermal. The drop in temperature during the Latest Glacial Period and Neoglaciation has not endangered the existence of tropical faunas. With influence of cooling fluctuation during historical period, some faunas have removed southwards progressively, but disappearance of these animals in China‘s tropics was mainly the result of artificial factors.     

The Quaternary faunas and climatic fluctuation in the tropical zone of China

About 70 examples of Quaternary fauna in China's tropics are enumerated in this paper. Of which about 40% of the examples can be found even in cooling stages, showing the smaller amplitude of climatic fluctuation during Quaternary. According to the temporal and spatial distribution of tropical faunas, the following characters of climate variation can be evidenced: two main cycles in Early Pleistocene, three main cycles in Middle Pleistocene, two main cycles in Late Pleistocene and Holocene Megathermal. The drop in temperature during the Latest Glacial Period and Neoglaciation has not endangered the existence of tropical faunas. With influence of cooling fluctuation during historical period, some faunas have removed southwards progressively, but disappearance of these animals in China's tropics was mainly the result of artificial factors.     

The Quaternary climate records of coral reef in the tropical zone of China

The analysis results of oxygen isotopes, carbon isotopes, geochemistry and the growth belt of reef coral etc. for some profiles of coral reef show that the basic pattern of climatic fluctuation during the Quaternary period can be reflected by coral reef. The trend of climate change was from cooling to warming during the Early Pleistocene with at least four cycles, and from warming to cooling with at least seven cycles during the Middle Pleistocene. The late Pleistocene is a period of the Quaternary which shows the most frequent variation of climate but generally two main cycles of warming–cooling can be seen. During the Holocene the climate went through a process of warming-rise in temperature-drop in temperature. During the historical period there were four cycles of cooling-warming at 1700 a BP. During the last 200 years climate change is characterized by two stages; a positive deviation in the former 100 years, and a negative deviation in the latter 100 years with general warming trend.     

中国热带珊瑚礁的第四纪气候记录

The coral reef in China’s tropics can be divided into three regions, namely, the South China Sea Islands, Hainan Island and the Leizhou Peninsula as well as Taiwan Island. There are 34 islands of coral reef which are named in the South China Sea Islands …     

中国热带西部历史时期气候波动

夏代至清代约4000 a的历史时期,中国热带西部的气候波动比热带东部微弱。东部的5个冷期之中,周、战国至西汉、晋、唐末至南宋冷期,在西部仅有个别冷波动的实例,反而可以举出较多的暖波动现象。明清小冰期东、西部基本同步。东部的3个暖期(汉、唐、元明)在西部也有相应的表现。中国热带历史时期的冷波动与太阳活动的平静期有一定的相关。热带东、西部气候波动的差异,主要是由于东部受东亚季风的影响,而西部则受南亚季风的影响。     

HEMIARID BASIN RESPONSES TO ABRUPT CLIMATIC CHANGE: PALEOLAKES OF THE TRANS-PECOS CLOSED BASIN

Western North American hemiarid basins situated along a climate boundary zone, or threshold, that separates regions of different climate regimes exhibit greater variability to changes in hydroclimatic variables. The Trans-Pecos Closed Basin study examines how global paleoclimatic factors and intrinsic geographic controls act in determining the threshold between states of hydroclimatic equilibria. Geomorphic, radiocarbon, and limnetic evidence identifies four major highstands for late Pleistocene Lake King during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Patterns in the resulting model limnograph for Lake King suggest that runoff contributions from basin catchments to the inundated area were limited by precipitation rather than evaporation. Timing of the onset of lacustrine transgressive events corresponds with the later stages of cooling events recorded in the Greenland ice and North Atlantic deep-sea sedimentary record. Correlation of Trans-Pecos lacustrine environments with North Atlantic cooling implies that full pluvial conditions in the basin were limited to those periods when those cooling events resulted in extreme equatorward shifts of the LGM subpolar winter storm tracks, providing a moisture source to the basin. By comparing timing, intensity, and direction of climate change over a widely spaced array of hemiarid basins, the global implications of climatic events are better understood. [Key words: Last Glacial Maximum, paleolakes, Pleistocene, Trans-Pecos Closed Basin, New Mexico, Texas.]     

The cooling fluctuation events during Holocene in the tropical zone of China

Forty-eight samples are chosen to discuss the distribution in space and time of the cooling fluctuation events during HoloCene in the tropical zone of China in this paper. The authors consider that the Neoglaciations II and III (or Cooling Event ①) have a widespread impact on the drop in temperature of 1-2 oC or less than 2 oC. The YD Event was dated at 11,300-10,200 a BP in the tropical mainland and its dating is 11,400-10,500 a BP in the sea area with a drop in temperature of 4-6 oC. The distribution of Event B and Neoglaciation I is taking a position of north, with a drop in temperature of 2.5-3.0 oC. The Cooling Event ② shows the temporality in time. The Cooling Event ③ shows the limitation of regional distribution with a drop in temperature of less than 1.5oC. The more recent the cooling event is, the smaller the drop amplitude in temperature will be. In the eastern part of tropical zone seven events are complete in all varieties but the cooling fluctuation is weaker in the western part. In Hainan Island and South China Sea the appearance of cooling fluctuations is synchronous with each other.     

青海共和盆地的风沙堆积

我国沙漠主要分布在青藏高原以北干旱内陆盆地区域。在高原内部,除柴达木有广泛的风沙堆积外,青海东部共和盆地也是沙丘分布比较集中的-个区域。自1981年夏季以来,笔者曾数度涉足共和盆地,对盆地内风沙堆积获得一些初步认识。鉴于在中国沙漠研究中,共和盆地的沙区尚无专文系统报道,现根据野外考察和室内分析资料整理成文,以供沙漠研究与治理部门参考。     

中国热带第四纪板块运动的地貌效应

The eastern and western fronts of plate movement in Taiwan Island and Tibetan Plateau respectively are the two major sources of tectonic force for the morphogensis during Quaternary in China′s tropics. Seven examples of geomorphological effects of plate movement are enumerated to discuss the differentiation of tectonic landforms in space and time during Quaternary. The tectonic movement tends to be more active since middle Pleistocene. Some phenomena such as the arc-shape mountain systems, volcanism and crustal deformation imply that the juncture zone of eastern and western tectonic forces is located at about 1 1O°E.