Postglacial floodplain development and Mesolithic-Neolithic occupation in the Russian forest zone

River valleys have always been attractive places for human occupation. The history of Mesolithic and Neolithic floodplain occupation is linked with archives of fluvial evolution, in particular the intricate relationships between palaeo-hydrological regimes, ecological development and sedimentary environments. This paper describes floodplain evolution in the Russian forest lowland around Moscow since the last deglaciation. Although there is an obvious climatic driving force for the initial fluvial incision at the end of the last glacial, there are many arguments pointing to complex intrinsic evolution involving successive pedogenesis, floodplain accumulation, flooding and fluvial incision from the beginning of the Holocene towards recent times. Increasing wetness during the early and middle Holocene forced people to move from the lowest parts of the valley towards its edges until ultimately, during the most severe flooding episode (at around 2600 years BP), they had to abandon the valley altogether.     

Cryptotephra from the 74 ka BP Toba super-eruption in the Billa Surgam caves,southern India

The ～74 ka BP Youngest Toba Tuff (YTT), from the largest known Quaternary volcanic eruption, has been found for the first time as a non-visible (crypto-) tephra layer within the Billa Surgam caves, southern India. The occurrence of the YTT layer in Charnel House Cave provides the first calendrical age estimate for this much debated Pleistocene faunal sequence and demonstrates the first successful application of cryptotephrochronology within a cave sequence. The YTT layer lies ～50 cm below a major sedimentological change, which is related to global cooling around the MIS 5 to MIS 4 transition. Using this isochronous event layer the Billa Surgam Cave record can be directly correlated with other archaeological sites in peninsular India and palaeoenvironmental archives across southern Asia.     

石笋氧碳同位素古气候代用指标研究进展

洞穴石笋以其独立的绝对年龄和稳定的古气候代用指标而成为很好的陆地古气候研究材料。应用U 系定年,可以获得独立精确的日历年时间序列,结合年纹层统计,可以获得年际甚至是季节性变化古气候记录。作为古气候代用指标,石笋氧同位素具有全球可对比性,现已建立了氧同位素的全球气候变化曲线,显示了比深海氧同位素及极地冰芯氧同位素记录更多的优势。石笋δ18O 的影响因素很多,在东亚季风控制区和其它季风控制区,石笋的δ18O 反映了夏季风的强度或者是季风降雨的变化。这些全球可对比的具有高精度绝对定年的石笋δ18O 记录,突破了早期的单一温度控制机理,不仅为古气候学家提供了坚实的古气候变化时间序列,而且使古气候研究能从机理上探讨其变化规律。δ13C不如δ18O 具有全球可对比性,在同位素平衡的开放体系,石笋δ13C 主要反映了洞穴上覆土壤CO2 的同位素特征。因此,一般认为石笋δ13C可直接反映当地植被的特征,包括植被类型C3/C4 比率的变化及植被的茂盛与衰退,在一些地区也可作为大气降水和温度变化的指标。石笋δ13C 很易受到蒸发作用、滴水的快速去气、动力分馏、碳酸盐的先期沉积等影响而使得其数值偏正,应该予以重视。通过介绍石笋氧碳同位素的研究现状,使得读者对石笋的稳定同位素指标有一个初步认识。同时,对今后的研究方向给与一定的探讨。     

新疆荒漠露天矿区生态受损及砾幕层重构方法研究

露天矿开采过程中的岩土剥离、土地压占导致大面积的地表、植被及地下水系被破坏和景观格局的改变,带来一系列生态环境问题。西北荒漠矿区作为我国未来煤炭资源战略的重要接替区,若无针对性的生态修复对策,将会严重威胁到我国国土生态安全。选取西北荒漠区7座典型露天煤矿,采用实地调研与实证研究法、遥感影像法、比较研究法等,从地貌重塑、砾幕层重构、荒漠植被重建3方面进行研究。结果如下:(1)新疆7座露天煤矿均有不同程度的土地扰动情况,白石湖矿区土地压占情况最严重,达到1 190.3 hm²;五彩湾矿区土地占用面积最大,为2 251.0 hm²;将军戈壁土地挖损面积最严重,达到1 007.3 hm²;大南湖矿区裸地面积最多,达到20 164.2 hm²;伊犁露天煤矿周边植被较多,达到343.3 hm²;西黑山矿区周边交通用地最多,达到194.3 hm²。(2)选择最具有代表性的五彩湾露天矿区进行砾幕层研究,其砾幕层面积比例由2000年的60.12%下降到2010年的31.28%,再上升至2017年的42.75%。(3)五彩湾矿区生物量为12.53 g/(m²·a),景观多样性指数为0.219 3,景观优势度为1.780 7,景观均匀度为0.109 7,其生态承载能力较弱,生态体系阻抗干扰能力较差,且区域的生态完整性较低。(4)五彩湾矿区植被覆盖率在2000年至2005年呈现上升趋势,2005年达7.72%,2005年至2015年呈现下降趋势,2015年降至3.89%。总的来说,西北荒漠露天矿区生态受损程度较为严重,应以砾幕层重构为主,采取人工支持引导的方式,提高自然生态修复的速率与效果,使受损生境通过自身主动反馈,走向自发恢复的良性循环。     

Cryptotephrochronology of the Eemian and the last interglacial–glacial transition in the North East Atlantic

The Eemian interglacial and the onset of the subsequent glacial period serve as the most recent analogue for the natural operation of the climate system during the current interglacial. Pronounced climatic oscillations occurred during this period, but their nature and pattern are poorly understood due to dating limitations and unknown phase relationships between different regions and archives. Tephrochronology offers considerable potential for precise correlation of disparate palaeoclimatic archives preserving evidence of these rapid climatic transitions through the tracing of common isochronous tephra horizons. We outline the identification of three previously unknown cryptotephra horizons within a marine core from the Rockall Trough, North East Atlantic. This sequence preserves a high‐resolution record of this interval and shard size, geochemical heterogeneity and the co‐variance of shard concentrations with ice‐rafted debris data are utilized to demonstrate that primary airfall was the most likely transport and depositional pathway. The main geochemical populations of these horizons have similar transitional alkali major and trace element compositions, suggesting that they were derived from a common Icelandic source, potentially the Öræfajökull volcanic system. These tephra horizons represent additions to the North Atlantic event stratigraphy for this period and tentative correlations to Icelandic terrestrial deposits are proposed for two horizons.     

广西某铅锌矿区废水汇集洼地土壤重金属污染调查与评价

对某铅锌矿废水汇集的岩溶洼地土壤重金属镉、铜、铅、锌、铬、砷和汞的含量进行调查分析,运用单项污染指数与综合污染指数相结合的方法对土壤环境质量状况和采用Hakanson潜在生态指数法对土壤重金属污染潜在生态风险进行评价。结果表明,该区块土壤受到重金属镉、锌、汞、铅的严重污染,其污染指数均大于1,尤其是镉污染指数高达88.4,其后依次为锌和汞,铅最小;剖面上,A、B、C层,即0~30 cm、30~60 cm和60~90 cm土壤,均已受到不同程度的重金属污染,而且污染程度A层>B层>C层,其综合污染指数分别为67.0、11.9和8.8,各自的潜在生态风险指数分别为2 921.0、543.4、421.2,对应的潜在生态风险程度分别为极强、强、强。由此可见,该岩溶洼地土壤不仅镉、锌、汞、铅污染严重,而且其生态风险也很大,但土壤中基本没有受铜、铬、砷污染。在该洼地土壤重金属污染物没有清除前,建议禁止种植食用农产品,而改为种植非食用型经济作物。      

植物地境及物种地境稳定层

植物地境是其生境的重要组成部分.地境结构的系统分析应作为探索植物与其地境生态关系的重要手段之一.植物地境具有鲜明的耗散结构特征, 内部的宏观稳定性和层次性是适应外界环境的自组织结果, 并与植物根群的“层片”结构相契合.每一“层片”代表一个特定的地下小环境.若地境具有多个“层片”, 说明该地境拥有可被多种植物利用的多样小环境.根群作为根系的主功能区, 是联系植物与地境的纽带.与植物的根系相比, 根群的“层片”现象更清晰.通过根群的“层片”, 不同植物实现资源分割, 避免过激竞争, 能够长期共存.基于地境耗散结构特征分析和各物种根群所处深度范围的统计结果, 首次建立了物种地境稳定层的概念.某一物种根群所处的位置即为该物种的地境稳定层.物种地境稳定层可作为地境生态功能分层的基本单位.较之地境全剖面各指标的平均值, 地境稳定层内理化指标组态更为真实地反映了植物生存的地下环境, 可用以确定物种的生存域; 不同植物的生理和生活习性是对其稳定层内指标组态量值及动态变化规律的一种响应; 地境所能提供的稳定层的多寡及组态对地表植物群落的结构具有一定的控制作用; 地境稳定层的消失和产生, 可导致对应物种的消亡和入侵, 造成植物群落的演替.      

Droughts in the desert: Medieval Warm Period associated with coarse sediment layers in the Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat,Red Sea

Prolonged droughts can cause environmental stress, even in ecosystems that are already adapted to dry conditions. In these areas life greatly depends on rare, sporadic rainfall events that can produce flash floods. Today, urban expansion, population growth and development are occurring worldwide, including along hyperarid coastlines, an ecological zone on the extreme of habitability. In such places, the absence of the already limited precipitation can lead to long-lasting damage, and recognizing drought conditions in the past is useful for planning. Recognizing droughts, however, is challenging because they are not known as depositional events, and therefore may be under-recognized in the sedimentological record. Floods in these hyperarid deserts carry eroded sediments and deposit them in either terrestrial or marine terminal basins. In the hyperarid (ca 30 mm rain per year) desert surrounding the northern Gulf of Aqaba-Eilat some flash floods reach the sea and deposit alluvial sediments (mostly silt and clay) on the shelf. Following a recent 17 year drought period (1995 to 2012) a coarser surface layer was recognized offshore the outlet of an ephemeral river, despite the lack of incoming flood material. This coarsened layer resulted from a prolonged period wherein mixing and winnowing of fine particles at the surface was not interrupted by recurrent flash floods. In the bottom of two sediment cores collected from the same shelf, a similarly coarsened layer was observed. The terminal level of this deep coarse layer was dated to ca 660 yr bp , corresponding with the end of the Medieval Warm Period (ca 1350 ad ). These findings suggest that the medieval anomaly resulted in a prolonged drought period in this already arid region. These results present a new interpretation of grain-size distribution records that provides a means to reconstruct drought histories in hyperarid regions globally.     

Traces of historical tropical cyclones and tsunamis in the Ashburton Delta (north‐west Australia)

Although the north‐western coast of Western Australia is highly vulnerable to tropical cyclones and tsunamis, little is known about the geological imprint of historic and prehistoric extreme wave events in this particular area. Despite a number of site‐specific difficulties such as post‐depositional changes and the preservation potential of event deposits, both tropical cyclones and tsunamis may be inferred from the geomorphology and the stratigraphy of beach ridge sequences, washover fans and coastal lagoons or marshes. A further challenge is the differentiation between tsunami and storm deposits in the geological record, particularly where modern deposits and/or historical reports on the event are not available. This study presents a high‐resolution sedimentary record of washover events from the Ashburton River delta (Western Australia) spanning approximately the last 150 years. A detailed characterization of event deposits is provided, and a robust chronostratigraphy for the investigated washover sequence is established based on multi‐proxy sediment analyses and optically stimulated luminescence dating. Combining sedimentological, geochemical and high‐resolution optically stimulated luminescence data, event layers are assigned to known historical events and tropical cyclone deposits are separated from tsunami deposits. For the first time, the 1883 Krakatoa and 1977 Sumba tsunamis are inferred from sedimentary records of the north‐western part of Western Australia. It is demonstrated that optically stimulated luminescence applied in coastal sedimentary archives with favourable luminescence characteristics can provide accurate chronostratigraphies even on a decadal timescale. The results contribute to the data pool of tropical cyclone and tsunami deposits in Holocene stratigraphies; however, they also demonstrate how short‐lived sediment archives may be in dynamic sedimentary environments.     

Ecological geology,environmental geology,geoecology: Contents and relations

The contents and relationships of environmental geology, ecological geology, and geoecology are discussed. It is shown that they differ in their subjects, directions and objects of investigation, as well as their scientific and practical tasks. Hence, these concepts and the spheres of knowledge they determine can be neither identified with nor substituted for each other because this inevitably causes terminological confusion and hampers the development of ecological problems, and not only in geology. Environmental geology, by its content, is a collection of data obtained by traditional geological sciences and has no specially developed conceptual base. It is an anthropocentrically oriented field of geological knowledge, unlike ecological geology, which is oriented biocentrically and has a wider volume. Geoecology is an interdisciplinary science studying the effect of all abiotic spheres of living matter. Ecologically oriented geological sciences are intended to provide information on only one of these spheres—the lithosphere.     

中国黄土剖面趋磁细菌的组成特征与生态意义

选择中国的黄土-古土壤序列的超磁细菌作为研究对象，以透射电镜、扫描电镜、生化实验和有机地球化学方法先后研究了从黄土地区陕西段家坡、甘肃西峰以及陕西洛川富集的趋磁细菌，结果表明，虽然趋磁细菌在黄土和古土壤层的形态有所差异，但它们均由细胞膜、细胞质和沿长轴排列的磁小体与气泡组成，在适宜的条件下它能生长出较多的磁小体。磁小体由氧化铁组成，并可从体内排出，使环境中部分Fe^2 转变为Fe^3 ，促使地层磁化率增高，尤其在古土壤层段，中国黄土剖面中趋磁细菌的产量是地表温度、湿度、pH、铁含量的函数，与湖沼中的趋磁菌相比，它在菌体形态、磁小体的数量与排列方式上有很大差距，因而中国西北黄土地区的趋磁细菌是典型的生态物种。     

地质档案管理办法探讨

地质档案是已完成地质工作的凭证,要求在档案汇交的时候对完整性进行严格控制;地质档案是开展新的地质工作的重要参考资料,存在利用率高的特点;地质档案含有关系国土安全的涉密测绘数据,在管理中对安全保密有特殊要求。针对这些特点,本文为了提高地质档案管理水平,针对基层地勘单位在地质档案管理中遇到的涉密地质资料利用安全意识薄弱问题,以及档案丢失和损耗率高的问题,提出通过不同涉密级别的档案分类管理和完善借阅防抵赖机制,达到增强档案使用者重视的目的来解决问题;针对地质档案汇交完整性不高的问题,提出引入质量管理体系文件作为客观证据,快速有效确定汇交范围的方法来解决。通过地质档案管理办法创新,更好的为地质工作服务。     

广西横县六景吉维特期腕足类Rhynchospirifer和Stringocephalus的环境元素和稳定同位素生物效应

利用现代生物学研究模式,对比了吉维特期不同层位中原地埋藏的Rhynchospirifer属壳体次生层（纤维层）与其围岩之间元素和碳、氧稳定同位素变化,探讨了不同时期同属腕足类的古环境元素和稳定同位素生物效应及其变化趋势;通过对比同层位Rhynchospirifer属和Stringocephalus属化石壳体次生层及其围岩之间的元素变化,探讨了同时期、同生境不同属腕足类的古环境元素生物效应。当环境元素含量发生变化时,Rhynchospirifer因其对各元素生态幅和耐受限度的差异而并不完全对环境中各化学因子的变化产生一致性的响应,而当跨越牙形石Lower varcus和Middle varcus亚带后,其属内适应性变异造成属内特异性选择发生一定程度的变化。Stringocephalus和Rhynchospirifer对其耐受限度较小的Al,K,Sc,Co等元素保持较高的属内有效性和特异性选择;对其耐受限度和生理有效性中等、可被其他元素替代的Mn,P,Ni,Cu等元素,其特异性选择有限,并可能与有效性原则和丰度作用相叠加;对于生态幅较宽的V,Cr,Sr,Pb等元素,属内的特异性选择弱化。当与同时期生态龛比邻属种对比时,彼此的生态幅发生部分重叠,部分元素如Mg,Na,As,Pb等的含量甚至较不同时期同属生物更加接近。Rhynchospirifer壳体次生层与其围岩碳、氧同位素比值分别保持着较好的同步性和一致性,即不存在碳、氧同位素生物效应。     

Exploring the past through lynchet landscapes in the Vosges Mountains and the Lorraine Plateau (France)

Lynchets are ridges formed by erosion and sediment accumulation downstream of agricultural plots and offer valuable insights into past agricultural activity. These microtopographies cover vast areas and serve as indicators of historical changes in land use. As a result, their ubiquity across Europe makes them particularly interesting. In this study, we propose a geoarchaeological approach to analyze six lynchets, four in the Vosges Mountains and two on the Lorraine Plateau (France). The lynchets can be considered soil archives with no stratigraphic organization or chronological sequence from bottom to top, making it difficult to determine the age of the lynchets and identify changes in land use over time. To this end, we propose the analysis of historical and geo-historical archives combined with the “pedosedimentary” archives of lynchets through charcoal identification and dating combined with near-infrared spectroscopy to determine the age, vegetation, and past land use changes associated with lynchet landscapes. By combining these multiple data sources, we are better able to show the chronological development of these ancient agricultural systems and uncover valuable information on landscape history. Charcoal dating suggests a higher frequency of fires from the Middle Ages. The dating aligns with the regional dynamics of anthropogenic fires, indicating a potential use of fire for cultural purposes. We also demonstrate the difficulty of extrapolating the dating of a lynchet to the entire lynchet system. Our results highlight the difficulties of interpreting the formation and dating of lynchets and the lynchet system on the sole basis of charcoal analysis. However, we highlight the value of applying pedoanthracology to lynchets to determine the dynamics of land use change in former fields.     

胶体颗粒在潜流带中沉积过程及机制

潜流带是河流地表水和地下水交混区域,是河流中重要的物质能量交换和水生生物栖息的场所,而胶体颗粒在潜流带中沉积,会改变潜流带中的水动力结构和生态环境。本文利用室内循环水槽实验和多物理场耦合的数值模拟方法,旨在研究胶体颗粒在河流上覆水与潜流带中的迁移过程和胶体颗粒在潜流带中沉积分布特征及其对不同因素的响应规律。结果表明:河流上覆水中胶体会逐渐被河床截留且截留胶体集中于河床浅层;沙波水平方向截留量呈现出迎水面较高、背水面较低的趋势;胶体在潜流带沉积的主要机制是潜流交换、颗粒沉降与河床截留作用。本文能为胶体颗粒在潜流带中的生态环境作用研究提供科学依据,并为河流生态环境修复、河流健康管理提供理论支持。     

Species as the basic units in evolution and biodiversity: Recognition of species in the Recent and geological past as exemplified by larger foraminifera

Methods for species recognition and delimitation based solely on morphological characters are presented. Species can be described as pools of contemporarily interconnected genotypes possessing their own history leading to evolutionary lines. Interconnection in genotypes is expressed by homogeneous phenotypes, but not in a one to one relation. The proof of interconnection by phenotypic homogeneity must be based on the four criteria ‘shape homogeneity’, ‘ontogenetic cohesion’, ‘homogeneous ecological niches’ and ‘evolutionary continuity’. While in all eukaryotes, three of the four – homogeneities in shape and ecological niches, ontogenetic cohesion – can be checked both in living individuals and fossil forms, the detection of birth (speciation), lifetime and death (ending) of a species, factors that determine an evolutionary line, is only possible in organisms with a fossil record. Speciation can be grouped in split-off and split-up processes. Split-off processes where a daughter species derives from a mother species are easier to recognize than split-up processes where several species originate more or less contemporaneously within a geological time interval. This makes it difficult to delimitate species when they are in a reticulate speciation process in which hybridization between subspecies is a common feature. In contrast to evolutionary continuity, homogeneities in shape and ecological niches as well as ontogenetic cohesion are more difficult to recognize in fossil species due to low specimen numbers, incomplete preservation caused by taphonomic processes and the fragmentary representation of fossil environments in the sedimentary strata, hindering the acquisition of gradients. Nevertheless, the four criteria enable the recognition of species without molecular–genetic investigations. Only the combination of these criteria makes identification of species in the fossil record possible.     

Fingerprinting the 8.2 ka event climate response in a coupled climate model

Using results from coupled climate model simulations of the 8.2 ka climate event that produced a cold period over Greenland in agreement with the reconstructed cooling from ice cores, we investigate the typical pattern of climate anomalies (fingerprint) to provide a framework for the interpretation of global proxy data for the 8.2 ka climate event. For this purpose we developed an analysis method that isolates the forced temperature response and provides information on spatial variations in magnitude, timing and duration that characterise the detectable climate event in proxy archives. Our analysis shows that delays in the temperature response to the freshwater forcing are present, mostly in the order of decades (30 a over central Greenland). The North Atlantic Ocean initially cools in response to the freshwater perturbation, followed in certain parts by a warm response. This delay, occurring more than 200 a after the freshwater pulse, hints at an overshoot in the recovery from the freshwater perturbation. The South Atlantic and the Southern Ocean show a warm response reflecting the bipolar seesaw effect. The duration of the simulated event varies for different areas, and the highest probability of recording the event in proxy archives is in the North Atlantic Ocean area north of 40° N. Our results may facilitate the interpretation of proxy archives recording the 8.2 ka event, as they show that timing and duration cannot be assumed to correspond with the timing and duration of the event as recorded in Greenland ice cores. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

青藏高原冰芯定年方法回顾及新技术展望北大核心CSCD

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