末次间冰期以来黄河中游黄土高原沟谷侵蚀-堆积过程初探

以陕西洛川北汉寨小流域为基础，建立末次间冰期以来黄河中游黄土高原的沟谷侵蚀－堆积模式，并定量计算流域不同时期侵蚀模数或堆积速率，初步恢复了末次间冰期以来黄土高原中部地区的沟谷侵蚀－堆积过程。计算结果表明，末次间冰期公来，黄土高原中部地区的自然侵蚀作用可能在逐渐加剧。侵蚀－堆积是黄土区沟谷发育的基本过程，并与气候变化密切相关。侵蚀期相当于湿润期，也就是降雨量大的时期；沉积黄土层的时期沟谷发育大大减缓甚至停止，并且在原来的谷底、谷坡上还可堆积黄土。     

黄土高原25万年以来粉尘堆积与侵蚀的定量估算

黄土高原广泛分布第四纪以来的粉尘堆积,是古气候变化的良好记录。但是,将黄土高原视为一个整体、从地质历史的角度来定量分析粉尘堆积-侵蚀的动态过程及其驱动机制的研究较少。本文利用遥感分析和地统计学中的克里格空间估值法,根据对具有代表性的84个实测黄土-古土壤剖面的分析,计算出黄土高原250ka以来各冰期和间冰期的粉尘堆积量和平均堆积速率,为认识区域粉尘沉降与轨道尺度气候变化的关系提供了新证据:间冰期气候偏暖湿,粉尘堆积较慢;冰期气候偏干冷,粉尘堆积加快。结合黄土高原现代降尘观测数据,进一步估算出黄土高原250ka以来各冰期和间冰期的面状侵蚀速率。初步结果发现,自然背景下黄土高原就存在较强的侵蚀作用;冰期的面状侵蚀速率略强于间冰期。     

黄河中游土壤侵蚀与下游古河道三角洲演化的过程响应

根据黄土高原土壤侵蚀的周期特点，结合华北平原古河道，古三角洲的演化过程，应用泥沙输移的过程响应,分析了晚更新世以来黄河中游黄土高原土壤侵蚀与下游古河道，三角洲演化的关系，在人类历史之前，黄土高原土壤侵蚀基本上遵循自在生态环境演化规律，强裂侵蚀期发生在干冷向湿湿气候转化的过渡期，在强裂侵蚀的初期是古道形成期，强烈侵蚀期发生在干冷向温湿气候转化的过渡期，在强裂侵蚀的期是古河道形成期，强烈侵蚀的外营力迭加了人为作用，黄河下游河游泳以改道，三角洲横向扩展发生在强烈侵蚀的衰退期，人类历史时期，土壤侵蚀的外营力迭加了人为作用，破坏了地质历史时期的规律性，土壤侵蚀强度越来越强，基本上按照旱涝变化频率而演化，干冷期降雨不均匀系数增加，土训侵蚀加重，径流量较少，河床以淤积为主，是古河道形成期，正常年黄河泥少输移比接近于一，是三角洲进积期，温湿期降雨量增加，径流量加大，下游河流改道，三角洲横向发展。     

雅鲁藏布江中游12kaBP前后的黄土堆积及其气候意义

在青藏高原南部雅鲁藏布江中游的河流阶地上堆积着1~3m厚的风成黄土,颗粒较粗,发育有不同程度的垂直节理。经光释光测试年代,发现它们形成于12ka BP前后,是沉积速率达到0.47~1.49m·ka-1的快速黄土堆积。河流两岸高山上岩体经风化产生的碎屑物质汇集在河流谷地,在新仙女木(Younger Dryas,YD)时期干冷的气候条件下,经强劲的地表风搬运至山前平坦的河流阶地上,形成黄土堆积。这些黄土沉积揭示出YD时期青藏高原南部气候干冷,风沙活动强。     

长江上游土地利用变化与冲沟发生和演变

冲沟侵蚀是中国西部山区一个重要的环境问题。小流域研究表明，黄河和长江中的泥沙主要是冲沟侵蚀引起的。目前，长江上游80%的冲沟因被幼林草植被覆盖而处于非活跃期。到底这些冲沟系统是什么时候形成的？未来的暴雨和径流是否会激活这些冲沟系统？土地利用与景观结构对冲沟系统的发生、演变有何关系？基于这些问题，近几年来在中科院山地环境学“百人计划”和“国外引进杰出人才”项目及德国洪堡基金的资助下，中德科学工作者进行了合作研究。本文介绍了长江上游地区土地利用变化与冲沟发生、演变的部分研究成果。我们在西昌安宁河干暖河谷选择了两个冲沟系统一个位于西溪乡长山岭，一个位于大青梁子。为了定量评价土地利用对冲沟发育的影响，我们对研究小流域的航片、土壤剖面、泥沙堆积与土地利用历史等进行了详尽的综合对比分析。同时，对两个冲沟系统的大小和土壤流失的体积进行了详细的野外调查、测定和计算。据此，获得了研究流域的冲沟侵蚀速率。研究结果表明，长江上游数百年的持续景观演变，尤其是20世纪中期人为强烈的不合理农业垦殖和利用土地，造成了四川西南部大量冲沟系统的形成和发展，研究流域的冲沟侵蚀速率高达375t/hm2*a-1。采取成功的水土保持措施以控制冲沟侵蚀，对中国西南山地退化环境的生态修复具有重大实践意义。     

晚更新世以来的季风变化对晋陕蒙接壤区现代侵蚀的影响

黄土高原晚更新世末次冰期时期,冬季风强盛,马兰黄土堆积;全新世以来的间冰期时期,夏季风强盛,降水较丰,侵蚀强烈。晚更新世以来的中国东部海岸线40°N 一带变化最大,同纬度晋陕蒙接壤区是黄土高原季风气候变化最剧烈的地区,致使该区成为黄土高原沙黄土区中现代降水最多的地区。沙黄土和较多降水的组合,使晋陕蒙接壤区成为黄土高原现代侵蚀最剧烈的地区。     

黄土侵蚀与啮齿动物活动关系的观察——以滹沱河流域的黄鼠为例

在滹沱河流域两岸的观察中发现,达呼尔黄鼠对黄土的强烈挖掘活动,可以促使和加速黄土区冲沟崩塌侵蚀的发生和发展。经相关和回归检验,表明自然数量的黄鼠数量及其挖掘的洞口土堆的体积量与黄土塌方的体积量之间存在着明显的正相关关系,变量间的相互影响是显著的。     

全球气候变暖对黄土高原侵蚀产沙的影响

本文讨论未来全球气候变暖引起黄土高原侵蚀产沙的变化趋势。在分析气候期与侵蚀期关系的基础上,提出堆积期与侵蚀期都发生在干旱期,未来全球气候变暖进入湿润期,黄土高原侵蚀产沙趋于减少。     

金沙江干热河谷元谋盆地冲沟沟头形态学特征研究

金沙江干热河谷因独特的气候类型——干、热、降水集中,冲沟侵蚀破坏十分严重。从冲沟沟头形态学特征的角度,运用分形几何学理论,以金沙江干热河谷元谋盆地的冲沟为研究对象,对沟头的分形弯曲度和土壤分形特征进行分析,揭示不同土地利用方式下,沟头空间形态、土壤形态与冲沟发育的相关关系及不同沟头形态所反映的自然环境特征差异性,这对研究冲沟的空间格局和动态监测提供了新的思路,对冲沟侵蚀治理,防止土地劣化具重要的理论指导意义。     

黄土高原侵蚀期研究

黄土高原在沉积的同时也存在着侵蚀,主要是流水、重力等因素造成的。这种侵蚀会受到气候、构造运动以及人类活动控制。资料显示,黄土高原存在3种基本的侵蚀期,一是气候侵蚀期,二是构造侵蚀期,三是人为因素侵蚀期。此外还有气候与构造共同作用产生的侵蚀期和构造与人类共同作用产生的侵蚀期。温湿期风尘堆积少,降水量增多,流水动力增强,是黄土高原理论上的侵蚀期。构造抬升引起侵蚀基准面下降,进而导致黄土高原加快侵蚀,出现构造侵蚀期。人类活动破坏了黄土高原的植被和土层结构,导致黄土高原侵蚀加剧,从而出现了人类因素引起的现代侵蚀加速期。在黄土发育的冷干期,由于植被稀疏,侵蚀量大于温湿期,但堆积量远大于侵蚀量。要改变现代侵蚀状况,就应当加强黄土高原生态环境治理。     

陕北洛河流域地貌演化阶段的定量分析

根据洛河流域地貌南北纵向区域分布规律,并参考张宗祜先生(1986)编制的"中国黄土高原地貌类型图",将洛河流域由南至北依次划分为洛川黄土塬区、甘泉一志丹黄土梁状(为主)丘陵沟壑区及吴起黄土峁状(为主)丘陵沟壑区3个地貌区。借助于GIS的空间分析功能,对洛河流域3种不同地貌绘制了Strahler曲线,采用高程积分法、信息熵法、侵蚀积分值法进行计算。结果表明:3种地貌区均属于壮年期地貌发育数量特征值范围,说明洛河流域总体的发育状态已经开始进入壮年期,但不同地貌分区的发育阶段不尽相同;洛河流域不同地貌的面积-高程积分曲线的S值大小排列顺序为:吴起黄土峁状(为主)丘陵沟壑区< 洛川黄土塬区< 甘泉一志丹黄土梁状(为主)丘陵沟壑区,与理论情况不相符。分析认为,这可能是由于近年来洛川黄土塬区侵蚀强度增加对洛川黄土塬区的地貌发育产生了一定的影响。     

西安地区灞河河谷土壤侵蚀量研究

以野外调查测量与河谷侵蚀历史资料为依据,研究了灞河河谷土壤总侵蚀量和各阶段侵蚀量,并提出了非对称型河谷区与对称型河谷区的土壤侵蚀量计算公式。结果表明,灞河发育的5级阶地与河漫滩代表灞河发育以来共经历了6个明显的侵蚀阶段,各阶段侵蚀量均存在差别,从老到新,第一、三侵蚀阶段侵蚀强,第二、四、五阶段及河漫滩代表的侵蚀阶段侵蚀弱。河流侧向迁移造成的侵蚀量大于垂直下切产生的侵蚀量。蓝田县城附近57.3 km²范围内侵蚀总量约为6.5 km³。文中提出的计算河谷土壤侵蚀量的计算公式不仅适用于灞河河谷区,而且也适用于其他河谷区。这项研究对河谷区土壤侵蚀总量和分阶段侵蚀量的计算以及查明侵蚀强度变化规律有重要意义。     

Influence of late Holocene hillslope processes and landforms on modern channel dynamics in upland watersheds of central Nevada

Stratigraphic, geomorphic, and paleoecological data were collected from upland watersheds in the Great Basin of central Nevada to assess the relationships between late Holocene climate change, hillslope processes and landforms, and modern channel dynamics. These data indicate that a shift to drier, warmer climatic conditions from approximately 2500 to 1300 YPB led to a complex set of geomorphic responses. The initial response was massive hillslope erosion and the simultaneous aggradation of both side-valley alluvial fans and the axial valley system. The final response was fan stabilization and axial channel incision as fine-grained sediments were winnowed from the hillslope sediment reservoirs, and sediment yield and runoff processes were altered. The primary geomorphic response to disturbance for approximately the past 1900 years has been channel entrenchment, suggesting that the evolutionary history of hillslopes has produced watersheds that are prone to incision. The magnitude of the most recent phase of channel entrenchment varies along the valley floor as a function of geomorphic position relative to side-valley alluvial fans. Radial fan profiles suggest that during fan building, fan deposits temporarily blocked the flow of sediment down the main stem of the valley, commonly creating a stepped longitudinal valley profile. Stream reaches located immediately upvalley of these fans are characterized by low gradients and alternating episodes of erosion and deposition. In contrast, reaches coincident with or immediately downstream of the fans exhibit higher gradients and limited valley floor deposition. Thus, modern channel dynamics and associated riparian ecosystems are strongly influenced by landforms created by depositional events that occurred approximately 2000 years ago.     

陕西北部榆林第四纪地层剖面的粒度分析与讨论

本文根据榆林剖面及其粒度分析结果,讨论了剖面中地层的沉积相、古气候和环境演化.     

Hillslope gullying in the Solway Firth — Morecambe Bay region, Great Britain: Responses to human impact and/or climatic deterioration?

In the Solway Firth — Morecambe Bay region of Great Britain there is evidence for heightened hillslope instability during the late Holocene (after 3000 cal. BP). Little or no hillslope geomorphic activity has been identified occurring during the early Holocene, but there is abundant evidence for late Holocene hillslope erosion (gullying) and associated alluvial fan and valley floor deposition. Interpretation of the regional radiocarbon chronology available from organic matter buried beneath alluvial fan units suggests much of this geomorphic activity can be attributed to four phases of more extensive gullying identified after 2500–2200, 1300–1000, 1000–800 and 500 cal. BP. Both climate and human impact models can be evoked to explain the crossing of geomorphic thresholds: and palaeoecological data on climatic change (bog surface wetness) and human impact (pollen), together with archaeological and documentary evidence of landscape history, provide a context for addressing the causes of late Holocene geomorphic instability. High magnitude storm events are the primary agent responsible for gully incision, but neither such events nor cooler/wetter climatic episodes appear to have produced gully systems in the region before 3000 cal. BP. Increased gullying after 2500–2200 cal. BP coincides with population expansion during Iron Age and Romano-British times. The widespread and extensive gullying after 1300–1000 cal. BP and after 1000–800 cal. BP coincides with periods of population expansion and a growing rural economy identified during Norse times, 9–10th centuries AD, and during the Medieval Period, 12–13th centuries AD. These periods were separated by a downturn associated with the ‘harrying of the north’ AD 1069 to 1070. The gullying episode after 500 cal. BP also coincides with increased anthropogenic pressure on the uplands, with population growth and agricultural expansion after AD 1500 following 150 years of malaise caused by livestock and human (the Black Death) plagues, poor harvests and conflicts on the Scottish/English border. The increased susceptibility to erosion of gullies is a response to increased anthropogenic pressure on upland hillslopes during the late Holocene, and the role of this pressure appears crucial in priming hillslopes before subsequent major storm events. In particular, the cycles of expansion and contraction in both population and agriculture appear to have affected the susceptibility of the upland landscape to erosion, and the hillslope gullying record in the region, therefore, contributes to understanding of the timing and spatial pattern of human exploitation of the upland landscape.     

130ka来陕北黄土高原北部的气候变迁

根据陕北黄土高原北部两个典型的地层剖面的岩性特征、磁化率曲线等古气候相关指标，认为１３０ｋａ来该区域气候经历了四个明显的暖湿期与干冷期的交替变化。这与黄土高原洛川剖面所反映的古气候旋回及深海氧同位素曲线变化趋势基本吻合，并与全球气候变化具有同步性。     

Response and recovery of the Eel River, California, and its tributaries to floods in 1955, 1964, and 1997

Northwestern California is prone to regional, high magnitude winter rainstorms, which repeatedly produce catastrophic floods in the basins of the northern Coast Ranges. Major floods on the Eel River in 1955 and 1964 resulted in substantial geomorphic changes to the channel, adjacent terraces, and tributaries. This study evaluated the changes and the effects of a moderate flood in 1997 through field observations and examination of aerial photographs that spanned from 1954 to 1996. The purpose was to document the nature and magnitude of geomorphic responses to these three floods and assess the rates and controls on the recovery of the Eel River and its tributaries. Channel widening from extensive bank erosion was the dominant geomorphic change along the lower Eel River during major floods. As a result of the 1964 flood, the largest amount of widening was 195 m and represented an 80% change in channel width. Channel narrowing characterized the periods after the 1955 and 1964 floods. More than 30 years after the 1964 flood, however, the river had not returned to pre-flood width, which suggests that channel recovery required decades to complete. A long recovery time is unusual given that the Eel River is located in an area with a “superhumid” climate and has an exceptionally high sediment yield. This long recovery time may reflect highly seasonal precipitation and runoff, which are concentrated in 3–5 months each winter. In contrast to the main stem of the Eel River, the dominant effects of floods on the tributaries of the Eel River were rapid aggradation of channel bed and valley floor followed by immediate downcutting. Dendrogeomorphic data, aerial photographs, and field observations indicate that thick wedges of gravel, derived largely from hillslope failures in upper reaches of the tributaries, are deposited at and immediately upstream of the mouths of tributaries as the stage of the Eel River exceeded that of the tributaries during major floods. In the waning stages of the flood, the tributaries cut through the gravel at a rate equal to the lowering of the Eel and generated unpaired terraces and nickpoints. The complete process of deposition and incision can occur within a few days of peak discharge. Although reworking of some sediment on the valley floor may continue for years after large floods, channel morphology in the tributaries appears to be a product of infrequent, high magnitude events. The morphology of the tributary channel also appears to be greatly influenced by the frequency and magnitude of mass wasting in headwater areas of small basins.     

The distribution of silty soils in the Grayling Fingers region of Michigan: Evidence for loess deposition onto frozen ground

This paper presents textural, geochemical, mineralogical, soils, and geomorphic data on the sediments of the Grayling Fingers region of northern Lower Michigan. The Fingers are mainly comprised of glaciofluvial sediment, capped by sandy till. The focus of this research is a thin silty cap that overlies the till and outwash; data presented here suggest that it is local-source loess, derived from the Port Huron outwash plain and its down-river extension, the Mainstee River valley. The silt is geochemically and texturally unlike the glacial sediments that underlie it and is located only on the flattest parts of the Finger uplands and in the bottoms of upland, dry kettles. On sloping sites, the silty cap is absent. The silt was probably deposited on the Fingers during the Port Huron meltwater event; a loess deposit roughly 90 km down the Manistee River valley has a comparable origin. Data suggest that the loess was only able to persist on upland surfaces that were either closed depressions (currently, dry kettles) or flat because of erosion during and after loess deposition. Deep, low-order tributary gullies (almost ubiquitous on Finger sideslopes) could only have formed by runoff, and soil data from them confirm that the end of gully formation (and hence, the end of runoff) was contemporaneous with the stabilization of the outwash surfaces in the lowlands. Therefore, runoff from the Finger uplands during the loess depositional event is the likely reason for the absence of loess at sites in the Fingers. Because of the sandy nature and high permeability of the Fingers' sediments, runoff on this scale could only have occurred under frozen ground conditions. Frozen ground and windy conditions in the Fingers at the time of the Port Huron advance is likely because the area would have been surrounded by ice on roughly three sides. This research (1) shows that outwash plains and meltwater streams of only medium size can be significant loess sources and (2) is the first to present evidence for frozen ground conditions in this part of the upper Midwest.     

陕北丹霞地貌特征及国内外对比研究

通过野外考察,并结合地质资料和样品分析,对陕北丹霞地貌形成的地质构造背景、红层岩性、形态特征、演化过程等进行系统阐述,并与中国东南部湿润区及国外的典型丹霞地貌进行对比,总结其共性和差异。结果表明：陕北丹霞地貌形成的构造环境为大型内陆坳陷盆地——鄂尔多斯盆地,主要成景地层为洛河组紫红色中-细粒长石石英砂岩,形成于早白垩世的干旱沙漠环境,发育大型交错层理,其碎屑颗粒分选性和磨圆度较好,但结构松散,胶结程度较弱,颗粒表面有碟形撞击坑等典型风成砂岩特征。陕北丹霞地貌最显著的特征是顶部有第四纪黄土盖层,形成覆盖型丹霞,地貌发育总体上处于青年期,整体为高原-峡谷景观,发育密集的沟谷群和连续的丹霞崖壁,但孤立的单体地貌较少。陕北丹霞地貌演化过程可划分为早白垩世红层沉积-晚白垩世红层盆地构造抬升和古丹霞发育-古近纪以来间歇式抬升-第四纪黄土覆盖等4个阶段。国内外对比方面,陕北丹霞与中国东南部湿润区的丹霞地貌在构造环境,物质基础,地貌特征等方面差异较显著,但与美国西部的丹霞地貌存在许多相似性。