浙江三门湾猫头深潭风暴快速沉积研究

三门湾频受热带风暴的影响,风暴期出现剧烈的滩冲、槽淤的泥沙交换,而在风暴后的正常天气条件下,则产生滩淤、槽冲的泥沙交换过程.通过猫头深潭(槽)9417号台风前后剖面水深重复测量、沉积特征及沉积物放射性同位素(210Pb,137Cs)测年等资料,揭示猫头深潭风暴快速沉积(骤淤).正常天气条件下风暴沉积产生再悬浮随潮运移,深潭水深得以恢复.在连续强热带风暴的影响下,又遇强的风暴增水,风暴沉积难以完全被冲刷,部分残留在深潭内,在猫头深潭沉积层中储存着风暴沉积的信息

Storm rapid sedimentation of Maotou deep trough in the Sanmen Bay of Zhejiang

The Sanmen Bay is frequently influenced by the typhoon, sediment exchange between beach and channel is stronger when storms hit this bay. Tidal currents are forceful with strong bottom current due to the topographic effect and predominant ebb occurs in the Maotou Channel. These features of tidal currents are a dynamic foundation to form deeper trough and to keep stability. The seabed is in the equilibrium of erosion and siltation with slight siltation in last 100 a. However, when the storms hit the bay, siltation occurs obviously in the trough and erosion in the broad tidal flat. The sediments which are eroded from tidal flat provide resources for rapid deposit in the Maotou Channel. An average depth of profile across deeper trough reduced about 142 cm measured on August 26, 1994, a week after No.9417 typhoon passed the bay. The data show that siltation strengthens from the slope to the bottom. Then the setting sediment by the storm can be resuspended and removed with the tidal current during normal weather. The depth in the trough is restored with slight erosion measured in January 1995, comparing the depth measured in June 1994. But some years, sedimentation occurred in the Maotou Trough. Three and 4 continued strong tropical storms hit the bay in 1989, 1990 respectively, they resulted in storm sediment to retain the trough. It is considered that deposited strata have stored in information of storm sediments in the deeper trough. Some "black mud" layers which contain higher water content, high organic content, low solidity and no bedding in the undisturbed core are recognized as a rapid deposit retained in the Maotou deeper trough by all previous storms.