南极布兰斯菲尔德海峡的硅质沉积物特征

根据粒度、微体生物组合、矿物组分和微量元素丰度,探讨了南极布兰斯菲尔德海峡中央海槽和南部下陆坡区冰－海沉积环境形成的硅质沉积物特征。硅质沉积物主要为硅藻软泥或粉砂质硅藻软泥,由微体生物遗体、粘土矿物、火山物质和陆源碎屑矿物所组成。硅质生物壳体主要为硅藻,含量＞３０％,含少量放射虫和硅质壳有孔虫。粘土矿物中蒙脱石的含量高达５２．５％,其次为陆源伊利石,高岭石和绿泥石含量相对较低。碎屑重矿物以橄榄石、辉石、角闪石等非稳定组合为特征,轻矿物主要包括石英、长石和火山玻璃。微量元素丰度特征与大洋现代表层沉积物有所区别。研究区硅质沉积作用具有多种物源、生物沉积作用居重要地位、陆源（包括火山）物质以粉砂和粘土级细质点为主、相对较高的沉积速率和受地质构造背景影响等特征。     

Post-Wisconsinian paleoenvironments at Salinas del Bebedero basin, San Luis, Argentina

We present a climatic reconstruction of Holocene lacustrine episodes in the Salinas del Bebedero basin (Argentina), based on geological and diatom information.Morphological, sedimentological and diatom evidence between 11600 ± 140 yr BP and 325 ± 95 yr BP, allowed us to interpret the paleoenvironments of the basin. Episodes of high energy (sandy levels) are linked to large inflow of meltwater through the Desaguadero River, related to development of glaciers on the Andes. This inflow is characterized by peaks of relative abundance of the brackish water diatom Cyclotella choctawatcheeana Prasad. The values of C. choctawatcheeana decrease in deposits of low energy (clay levels), where it co-dominates with oligohalobous Fragilaria and Epithemia spp.To the last two peaks of large inflow of meltwater, radiocarbon dates corrected to sidereal ages, are AD 1280/1420 and AD 1443/1656. These ages agree with two cold episodes clearly recorded in dendrological studies from the Patagonian Andes and were correlated to the Little Ice Age. Thus, older Holocene episodes of large inflow of water to the basin were correlated with the Neoglacial Advances defined by Mercer (1976) for the Andes.     

Modelling Spatial Patterns of Overbank Sedimentation on Embanked Floodplains

This paper presents a GIS-based mathematical model for the simulation of floodplain sedimentation. The model comprises two components: (1) the existing hydrodynamic WAQUA model that calculates two-dimensional water flow patterns; and (2) the SEDIFLUX model that calculates deposition of sediment based on a simple mass balance concept with a limited number of model parameters. The models were applied to simulate floodplain sediment deposition over river reaches of several kilometres in length. The SEDIFLUX model has been calibrated and validated using interpolated raster maps of sediment deposition observed after the large magnitude December 1993 flood on the embanked floodplain of the lower river Rhine in the Netherlands. The model appeared to be an adequate tool to predict patterns of sediment deposition as the product of the complex interaction among river discharge and sediment concentration, floodplain topography, and the resulting water flow patterns during various discharge levels. In the investigated areas, the resulting annual average sedimentation rates varied between 0.5 mm/year and 4.0 mm/year. The role of the most important mechanisms governing the spatial patterns of overbank deposition, i.e. inundation frequency, sediment load, floodplain topography and its influence on the flow patterns over the floodplain, are discussed.     

大青山调角海子地区全新世低温波动研究*

根据调角海子剖面寒冻现象的野外观察与测量、室内测年分析及孢粉分析等资料,对调角海子地区全新世低温波动进行了探讨,并与邻近地区的多种研究资料进行了对比.经初步研究认为,大青山调角海子地区一万年以来的低温波动主要有6次,时代分别为9100aBP～8800aBP、8000aBP～7800aBP、7000aBP～6900aBP、6000aBP～5800aBP、5300aBP～4700aBP和3100aBP～2400aBP,除第2、4次为弱低温波动,可能仅限于大青山地区外,其余均具有较为广泛的区域意义;每次低温波动的极端低温期较短,可能只有50年～60年;低温波动时年气温只比现在下降了1℃～3℃.     

A multi-proxy study of Holocene environmental change in the Maya Lowlands of Peten, Guatemala

We used multiple variables in a sediment core from Lake Peten-Itza, Peten, Guatemala, to infer Holocene climate change and human influence on the regional environment. Multiple proxies including pollen, stable isotope geochemistry, elemental composition, and magnetic susceptibility in samples from the same core allow differentiation of natural versus anthropogenic environmental changes. Core chronology is based on AMS ¹⁴C measurement of terrestrial wood and charcoal and thus avoids the vagaries of hard-water-lake error. During the earliest Holocene, prior to 9000 ¹⁴C yr BP, the coring site was not covered by water and all proxies suggest that climatic conditions were relatively dry. Water covered the coring site by 9000 ¹⁴C yr BP, coinciding with filling of other lakes in Peten and farther north on the Yucatan Peninsula. During the early Holocene (9000 to 6800 ¹⁴C yr BP), pollen data suggest moist conditions, but high ¹⁸O values are indicative of relatively high E/P. This apparent discrepancy may be due to a greater fractional loss of the lake's water budget to evaporation during the early stages of lake filling. Nonetheless, conditions were moist enough to support semi-deciduous lowland forest. Decrease in ¹⁸O values and associated change in ostracod species at 6800 ¹⁴C yr BP suggest a transition to even moister conditions. Decline in lowland forest taxa beginning 5780 ¹⁴C yr BP may indicate early human disturbance. By 2800 ¹⁴C yr BP, Maya impact on the environment is documented by accelerated forest clearance and associated soil erosion. Multiple proxies indicate forest recovery and soil stabilization beginning 1100 to 1000 ¹⁴C yr BP, following the collapse of Classic Maya civilization.     

临沧锗矿床成因初探

本文根据临沧锗矿床中富锗煤与硅质岩的空间分布规律，富锗煤中黄铁矿的硫同位素组成，锗在矿化煤层中的品位变化规律以及硅质岩的地球化学特征，探讨了分散元素锗形成独立矿床的可能机制，研究结果表明，与矿化煤层互层的硅质岩为热水沉积成因，矿化煤层中的锗主要来自形成硅质岩的热水溶液，而这种热水溶液中的锗则主要由盆地基底的富锗花岗岩所提供。     

定量重建贵州梵净山一万年以来的植被与气候

在孢粉分析和＾１４Ｃ测定年龄资料的基础上，以现代梵净山植被带及其气候状况为类比系统，应用主成分分析方法，定量重建贵州梵净山１万年以来的古植被和古气候演化历史，将其分为三个阶段：１０－７．８ｋａＢ．Ｐ．，７．８－２．７ｋａＢ．Ｐ．和２．７ｋａ Ｂ．Ｐ到现在，依次为升温期，高温期和降温期、其中高温期年平均温度比现代年平均温度高出１．６－３．３℃。１万年以来的年降水量比较稳定，使本地区一直处于较湿润状态     

江苏建湖地区全新世孢粉组合及其地质、古地理意义

对江苏建湖地区若干全新世剖面进行了系统的孢粉分析，划分出６个孢粉组合带，恢复了本地区自早全新世以来的古植被演替与古气候古环境变迁，探讨了本区全新世地层时代划分与对比     

The paleolimnology of North Pond: watershed-lake interactions

We examined the stratigraphic record of North Pond, a small, oligotrophic lake in western Massachusetts, U.S.A. to describe late and post-glacial watershed-lake interactions. In particular we investigated the effects of two similar vegetation changes in the watershed on lake biogeochemistry. There was a transient (about 100 years) decline in hemlock ca. 7500 yr B.P. that has not been recorded in other pollen stratigraphies in the northeast. The second event was the classical hemlock decline that occurred ca. 4800 yr B.P. and lasted about 2000 years. This decline occurred throughout the range of hemlock and is thought to have been caused by a pathogen. As the climate began to warm ca. 10 000 yr B.P., a spruce dominated boreal woodland was established in the watershed. Sediment chemistry data showed that as soils became more acidic, the lake also acidified as evidenced by diatom-inferred (DI) pH. Hemlock was established in the watershed by about 8000 yr B.P. This was accompanied by a slight decrease in DI pH. The transient hemlock decline ca. 7500 yr B.P. was associated with an increase in sedimentary charcoal particles, that suggested fire was responsible for its demise. The diatom stratigraphy indicated a brief, slight, increase in productivity and alkalinity and a brief decrease in lakewater dissolved organic carbon concentrations. Aquatic microfossil data indicated a decrease in the area of the littoral zone ca. 7500 yr B.P. Following the transient decline the lake became more acidic. There were only brief, subtle changes associated with the classical hemlock decline, including a slight decline in DI pH. Although the two disturbances involved a similar vegetation shift, the timing and mechanisms of the disturbances had a greater impact on lake biogeochemistry.     

Late Holocene climate change and human disturbance on Andros Island, Bahamas

A 2 m sediment core from Church's Blue Hole on Andros Island, Bahamas provides the first paleoecological record from the Bahama Archipelago. The timing of events in the lower portion of the core is uncertain due to inconsistencies in the radiocarbon chronology, but there is evidence that a late Holocene dry period altered the limnology of Church's Blue Hole and supported only dry shrubland around the site. The dry period on Andros may correlate with a widespread dry period in the Caribbean from 3200 to 1500 yr BP. After the dry period ended, a more mesic climate supported tropical hardwood thicket around Church's Blue Hole. At c. 740 radiocarbon yr BP there is a sudden rise in charcoal concentration and a rapid transition to pinewoods vegetation, while at c. 430 radiocarbon yr BP charcoal concentration drops, but is higher again near the top of the core. Although climatic shifts could have caused these changes in vegetation and charcoal concentration, the changes post-date human colonization of the Bahamas and may reflect human arrival, followed by the removal of humans c. 1530 AD and the recolonization of Andros Island c. 200 years later.This is the 12th in a series of papers published in this special AMQUA issue. These papers were presented at the 1994 meeting of the American Quaternary Association held 19–22 June, 1994, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Dr Linda C. K. Shane served as guest editor for these papers.