Loch Lomond Stadial glaciers in the Aran and Arenig Mountains,North Wales,Great Britain

Geomorphological evidence for four former local glaciers has been mapped in the Aran and Arenig Mountains, North Wales. Former glacial extent was deduced from the distribution and assemblage of end and lateral moraines, hummocky moraine, boulder limits, drift limits and periglacial trimlines. Comparison of infilled lake sediment stratigraphies inside and outside of the former glacier limits suggests a Loch Lomond Stadial (Late Devensian) age of the former glaciers (c. 12.9–11.5 cal. ka BP ). This finding is also supported by periglacial–landform contrasts between the land inside and outside of the glacier limits. Reconstruction of the four glaciers illustrates a mean equilibrium line altitude (ELA) of c. 504 m. From the reconstructed ELAs and the combination of precipitation and snowblow input for total accumulation, by analogy with Norwegian glaciers, a mean sea‐level July temperature is calculated at 8.4°C. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

中国黄土和阿拉斯加黄土磁化率气候记录的两种模式探讨

在中国和中欧黄土-古土壤研究中发现的磁化率与成壤作用(或古气候温湿程度)的正相关性已被第四纪科学家广泛认识,并应用于古气候研究中.成壤过程形成的亚铁磁性矿物被认为是古土壤磁化率增加的主要原因;然而,这一模式并不一定适用于其他黄土沉积地区,如阿拉斯加和西伯利亚黄土沉积显示了一个完全相反的磁化率行为,即在黄土层获高磁化率值而在古土壤层获低磁化率.这种相反的关系过去被解释为磁化率反映的是与风动力吹来的亚铁磁性矿物的含量,即与风速或风力大小有关.本研究发现阿拉斯加黄土与古土壤的磁性矿物性质有明显差异,不仅仅是粒径的大小,还有磁性矿物的种类即矿物相的差别.这一证据很难单纯以风力强度的大小来解释,意味着阿拉斯加古土壤的低磁化率至少部分是在成壤过程中亚铁磁性矿物发生改变(如溶解)而造成,表明阿拉斯加黄土和中国黄土的磁化率与古气候记录可能存在两种模式,即氧化和还原条件下的成土模式.黄土磁化率在不同的气候(温度湿度)条件下有着不同的对应关系:在低降水量、高蒸发量的干旱氧化成壤条件下,利于亚铁磁性矿物的生成,其磁化率与古气候的关系呈正相关,如中国和中亚黄土;在高纬高湿的还原成壤条件下,亚铁磁性矿物会被破坏被分解,其磁化率与古气候呈负相关关系,如阿拉斯加黄土.如果成壤条件在氧化和还原之间来回变换,那么就很难找到两者之间的联系.因此,将磁化率应用于古气候的重建时要加倍的小心.     

气候变化的天文理论

地球气候变化在１０～１００ｋａ（千年）的时间尺度上表现出规则的周期性,它们主要受轨道日射变化控制,并能被很精确地计算到几百万年。根据Ｍｉｌａｎｋｏｖｉｔｃｈ创立的天文理论,轨道变化是通过改变日射的季节分布和纬度分布来影响气候的。黄赤夹角４１ｋａ的周期改变日射的纬度分布,而气候岁差以１９ｋａ和２３ｋａ的两个周期改变日射的季节分布。作为对轨道日射变化的响应,全球气候在１０～１００ｋａ的时间尺度上按照气     

Mid‐ and late Holocene tree population density changes in northern Fennoscandia derived by a new method using megafossil pines and their tree‐ring series

Changes in tree density are estimated for the northern forest‐limit region of Finnish Lapland over the past seven and a half millennia. This is done using dendrochronologically dated Scots pine megafossils and their tree‐ring series. Direct and indirect estimates of past tree density are derived from chronology sample size (CSS) and growth trend modelling (GTM) respectively. The latter is a new method, where the past levels of growth competition (the influence of nearby trees) are extracted from the behaviour of growth trends in cross‐dated tree‐ring series, trends that are expected to be driven by tree‐density control. Two records constructed from the same original data set but by different means (independently) correlate significantly. Both records show a tree‐density maximum around 3000–1750 BC , indicating relative warmth during that time. Another positive tree‐density anomaly occurred in accordance with the ‘Medieval Warm Period’, preceding the thinning at the forest‐limit due to the ‘Little Ice Age’. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Chronology of latest Pleistocene lake‐level fluctuations in the pluvial Lake Chewaucan basin,Oregon, USA

New accelerator mass spectrometer radiocarbon ages from gastropods in shore deposits within the pluvial Lake Chewaucan basin, combined with stratigraphical and geomorphological evidence, identify an abrupt rise and fall of lake level at ca. 12 ¹⁴C ka. The lake‐level high is coeval with lake‐level lows in the well‐dated records of palaeolakes Bonneville and Lahontan, and with a period of relatively wet conditions in the more southerly Owens Lake basin. This spatial pattern of pluvial lake levels in the western USA at 12 ¹⁴C ka indicates a variable synoptic response to climate forcing at this time. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

川西雅安-名山地区白垩系泥岩的地球化学特征及古气候探讨

川西雅安一名山地区白垩纪地层发育,本文通过对不同层位地层中泥岩样品的微量元素、常量元素及粘土矿物成分测试分析,从地球化学特征对该区白垩纪古盐度、古水温及古气候进行初步探讨。研究表明,该区白垩纪水温相对较高。从早白垩世（夹关期）至晚白垩世（灌口期）水体盐度明显增加,古气温也明显增高。总体处于热带一亚热带背景,受干早期一半干旱期交替变化影响明显。     

白垩纪世界与大洋红层

白垩纪代表着地质历史中的一种极端的温室气候,已被国际地球科学界视为研究地球系统科学的典型范例。文中在评述白垩纪沉积作用、古气候、古海洋研究中取得的重要进展基础上,重点介绍推动白垩纪研究核心问题之一的黑色页岩和大洋缺氧事件以及由中国学者提出的白垩纪大洋红层和富氧作用。大洋缺氧事件与大洋红层的研究因其与碳氧循环、古气候和古海洋变化的紧密关系,已经成为国际白垩纪研究中的热点问题,并在今后一段时期内继续引领着白垩纪古海洋、古气候变化研究的不断深入。     

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY ALONG A NORTH–SOUTH TRANSECT OF FINLAND OVER THE LAST 500 YEARS: SIGNATURE OF SOLAR INFLUENCE OR INTERNAL CLIMATE OSCILLATIONS?

Statistical analysis of a multi-centennial dendrochronological proxy dataset of regional climate, constructed across the latitudinal gradient of 1000 km, was performed. It was shown that centennial ( c. 100 year), tri-decadal (27-32 year), bi-decadal (17-23 year) and decadal (9-13 year) periodicities governed the climate variability in Finland over the last five centuries. Despite the fact that many of the climatic periodicities bore great resemblance to periodicities of solar cycles, little evidence of actual solar influence on Finnish climate was found when the climate proxy records were subjected to linear correlation analysis with sunspot numbers. Highly non-linear response of Northern Fennoscandian climate to solar forcing might be a cause of this result, as well as influence of terrestrial climatic processes (e.g. effect of other forcing factors and internal dynamics of regional climate). Our results show that the presence of internal climate variability at time-scales of solar activity might distort the solar signature in climatic data and complicate its detection.     

距今30ka前后我国西北沙漠地区古环境

本文根据实地野外观测和前人的研究,对我国西北干旱地区约30kaB.P.时的环境特征进行了综合分析.选用的古环境指标主要来源于风成沉积、湖泊沉积及河流沉积,年代主要依靠14C测年.依据巴丹吉林沙漠沙丘上的钙质胶结层、植物残体、塔克拉玛干沙漠河流沉积以及巴丹吉林沙漠腹地及其西北缘的高湖面,认为在30kaB.P.前后,我国西北干旱地区雨量较高,气候较湿润.柴达木盆地、腾格里沙漠西部、古尔班通古特沙漠西部及内蒙古地区湖泊同期的高湖面也支持这一观点.     

中国铝土矿的成矿规律、关键科学问题与研究方法

中国是世界上铝的最主要生产国和消费国,但资源储量和人均占有铝资源量严重不足。中国铝土矿具有成矿时代单一、空间分布广泛但局部相对集中的特点,成因类型以喀斯特型为主,区别于国际上以红土型为主的特点。文章在前人大量研究的基础上,对山西断隆、华北陆块南缘、黔中北-渝南和桂西南-滇东南4个最主要铝土矿成矿带的成矿规律进行了总结。并在成矿规律总结基础上,提出了当前铝土矿研究面临的关键科学问题：①地层层序与成矿物质的来源与组成问题;②深时古气候背景下重大地质事件与铝土矿成矿耦合关系问题;③铝土矿共生/伴生矿产资源的开发利用以及成矿过程问题。同时,文章还对解决上述科学问题可能采用的技术方法和研究手段予以展望。