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Harald Svensson 《第四纪科学杂志》1988,3(1):57-67
Ice-wedge casts in Scandinavia frequently occur in three regions: (a) southwestern Jutland (outside the limit of the Weichselian glaciation); (b) southwestern Sweden; and (c) northernmost Norway. The latter two areas are both early deglaciated regions. Characteristics of casts in vertical sections are discussed with reference to the host and infilling material. Aerial photographs provide an effective tool for detecting relict ice-wedge polygons (crop marks, micromorphology). Experience from present-day permafrost regions with active ice-wedge formation helps to explain the palaeoclimatic significance of the relict polygons. Attempts to establish the ages of formation are discussed from a methodological point of view. 相似文献
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Lewis A. Owen Ben Richards Edward J. Rhodes W. Dickson Cunningham Brian F. Windley J. Badamgarav D. Dorjnamjaa 《第四纪科学杂志》1998,13(6):539-547
Relict permafrost structures (ice-wedge casts and cryoturbation structures) are present in the Gobi of southern Mongolia. Luminescence dates of sediments are presented to constrain the age of formation of permafrost structures. These data show that there was a phase of permafrost development during the latter part of the Last Glacial (after about 22 to 15 ka) that resulted in cryoturbated sediments and ice-wedge casts. Furthermore, permafrost degradation occurred during late Pleistocene times (13–10 ka) and was absent during the early Holocene. These permafrost structures mark the southernmost evidence of permafrost in northern Asia during late Quaternary times and indicate that the mean annual air temperature was below approximately −6°C during their formation. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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James C. Walters 《Quaternary Research》1978,10(1):42-54
Polygonal patterned ground and associated sediment-filled wedges occur in thin-bedded shale in central New Jersey. During a dry growing season, numerous areas of polygonal ground were visible owing to differential growth of vegetation over the sediment-filled fractures. Construction sites where material was removed from the surface prior to excavation also revealed areas of polygonal ground. Measurements of the patterns show networks of polygons with diameters ranging from about 3 m to over 30 m, with an average of approximately 20 m. The wedges examined in vertical exposures range in depth from 25 to 260 cm (average, 125 cm) and in width from 10 to 240 cm (average, 50 cm). The infilling material of the wedges is mostly a sandy loam, although this material is not homogeneous throughout the wedges. The presence of ventifacts and frosted sand grains within the wedges indicates eolian activity during the formation of these features. The polygonal ground and wedge structures exhibit several characteristics similar to those of ice-wedge casts, and available evidence suggests they may have originated as ice-wedge polygons during the last glacial maximum. 相似文献
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Frost-cracking and ice-wedge growth are fundamental processes within the permafrost environment. Extensive areas of contemporary permafrost terrain are characterised by frost-fissure polygons, formed by repeated thermal contraction-cracking of the ground. The incremental growth of ice veins and wedges along the axes of contraction-cracks contributes significantly to the volume of ground ice in near-surface permafrost. In areas beyond the present limit of permafrost, the recognition of ice-wedge pseudomorphs provides one of the few unambiguous indications of the former existence of permafrost conditions. An understanding of the processes of ice-wedge growth and thaw transformation is essential if contemporary ice wedges are to be used as analogues for Pleistocene frost-fissure structures, in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. 相似文献
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冰楔假型是反映古气候环境的重要标志,其蕴涵的气候地层信息对地貌演化过程具有重要的指示意义。通过对黄土高原北缘中部环江T1阶地上新发现的冰楔假型群特征的研究和光释光(OSL)测年,结果显示这些发育在冲积砂砾石中的冰楔假型的充填砂体的年代为 (30.01±3.31) ka B.P.,形成环境推测当时的年平均地温比现今要低17.7 ℃。该冰楔假型的发现也为末次冰期阶段性冻土南界的位置和变迁提供了证据。另外,据冰楔与阶地冲积物的关系推测,在冰楔形成的冰冻期河流阶地的堆积缓慢甚至停滞,在(28.64±3.13) ka B.P.之后的气候温暖期河流快速下切、T1阶地形成。这为河流阶地成因机制的探讨提供了依据,反映了气候波动对阶地发育的控制。 相似文献
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在黄河源区两岸的第二级阶地砂砾层和基座中发现了两种不同形态的冰楔假型群。一种是发育在阶地砂砾石层的冰楔假型,其特点宽而浅,底部边界呈圆滑锅状,深约0.5~0.9m,宽0.8~1.4m;另一种是发育在第二级阶地基座的基岩中,以窄深倒三角状为特点,其底部尖锐,深约0.7~2.0m,宽为0.3~1.0m。前者形成于全新世中期(5.69±0.43kaB.P.,5.43±0.41kaB.P.),后者形成于末次冰期的冰消期(13.49±1.43kaB.P.)。另外,还在洪积的砂砾石层中发现了规模较大的冻融褶皱(宽3~4m),其时代晚于39.83±3.84kaB.P.,也是末次冰期的产物。根据冰楔假型的对比研究,在全新世的中期(约5.5kaB.P.前后)和冰消期,黄河源区的降温幅度达6~7℃。尤其值得注意的是全新世中期的冰楔假型形成,表明了大暖期气温的不稳定性。 相似文献
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中国北方地区保留了晚更新世以来大量的冰缘遗迹. 在气候变化背景下, 在寒区和干旱区分别出现冰缘地貌、正逆向沙化等问题, 综合不同区域的地质遗迹, 从时间上的对应关系可进一步分析气候环境变化问题. 2008年5-7月调查中, 在鄂尔多斯和大同地区分别发现了新的砂楔和土楔;在大兴安岭生态定位研究站设立了8个钻孔和2套自动气象站, 开启了冻土、湿地、 积雪研究以及现代陆面过程对下伏冻土影响的研究;在黄岗梁地区新发现了一个冻融褶皱;调查了松嫩沙地古沙丘及古土壤活动与冻土进退的关系;发现小兴安岭地区冻土退化显著, 岛状冻土散布于海拔相对较高的地区;三江平原西部农业开发强烈改变了地表覆盖, 冻土温度升高显著, 冻土上限下降明显, 甚至厚度较薄的冻土消失. 后期工作希望通过综合、集成分析以上结果, 探讨我国北方地区晚更新世/全新世的冻土南界及环境变迁. 相似文献
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GEOF H. BURBIDGE HUGH M. FRENCH BRAIN R. RUST 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1988,17(1):33-40
Post-depositional structures in late Quaternary subaqueous outwash near St. Lazare, Québec resemble icewedge casts but are interpreted as water escape fissures. Cryogenic origin is discounted because, in contrast with ice-wedge casts, the fissures have a higher depth to width ratio, do not form an intersecting network, and do not exhibit adjacent upward turning of strata. In addition, their truncation by the sub-littoral unconformitydemonstrates formation before regression of the post-glacial Champlain Sea, under conditions in which ground ice development was highly unlikely. The fissures probably formed in response to elevated pore pressures caused by melting of remnant glacier ice or by liquefaction of deeper units. Excess pore water pressure initiated upward flow of dilute sediment-water mixtures that became concentrated in planar zones (fissures) along which they entrained and removed sediment. Slumping of the fissure walls followed, either during or after water escape. Minor faulting over cavities created by melting ice or water escape along fractures in underlying strata may have controlled the morphology of the fissures. 相似文献
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Pierre Gangloff 《Geoforum》1981,12(3):273-280
Evidence of villafranchian permafrost has been found at the southern end of the Rhine graben, 20km west of Basel. Two syngenetic ice-wedge casts were discovered in the “alluvions du Sundgau”. From a stratigraphical point of view, these coarse gravels were deposited after the Miocene and before the Günz glaciation. The occurrence of syngenetic periglacial structures shows that they must be of Pleistocene (Villafranchian) age. A SEM study of sand from the infilling of one of the cryogenic structures showed numerous marks of glacial origin on the quartz grains. They are indicative of a pre-Günz glaciation in the Alps. It is suggested that permafrost in villafranchian time developed only on the fringe of the alpine glaciation, but further studies will be needed for a better picture of villafranchian palaeogeography. 相似文献
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A Weichselian Late Pleniglacial fluvio-aeolian deposit has been investigated in the southern Netherlands. Three main structural lineaments have been distinguished: (1) very small, vertical platy structures (microjoints), in a parallel and a columnar configuration; (2) large joints and normal faults with minor displacement (‘Grubbenvorst type’), arranged in a conjugate fault-system; (3) large joints and normal faults (‘wedge-type’), located adjacent to ice-wedge casts. Since clay is absent, the occurrence of the vertical platy structures cannot be attributed to desiccation cracking. The vertical platy structures are interpreted as the result of thermal contraction cracking of a relatively thin layer, due to a sudden temperature drop. The large joints and normal faults of the Grubbenvorst type are the result of failure of the sediment due to the melting of the permafrost in the Late Pleniglacial, just before the formation of the Beuningen Gravel Bed. In other areas large periglacial convolutions have been formed during the same period. The normal faults and joints of the wedge type are more generally known. They are the result of failure of the sediment adjacent to a melting ice wedge. 相似文献
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The widespread Late Ordovician to Early Silurian glaciations are represented in South Africa by glaciogenic sediments of the Pakhuis Formation. Previously unrecorded clastic dykes within the basal tillite of this formation on Table Mountain, Cape Town, are interpreted as casts of frost-fissures filled directly with clastics (sand-wedges or ground-wedges) rather than filled subsequent to the melting of ice-wedges (ice-wedge casts). This suggests sub-aerial deposition for the tillite of the Sneeukop Member and the presence of a cold, dry climate with steep temperature gradients following deposition of that tillite in the Table Mountain area. A peculiar three-dimensional joint-pattern shown by the Pakhuis Formation tillites is interpreted as a relict of a reticulate ice-vein network that formed in sandy till in permafrost. Such networks have been documented from the modern environment, but so far their relicts have not been recorded in ancient sediments. 相似文献
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Robert F. Black 《Quaternary Research》1983,20(1):74-89
Since 1965, ice-wedge casts have been reported in deposits of sand and gravel in Connecticut. These are wedge forms up to 1.1 m wide and many meters high. Most are single forms, not in polygonal array. They are found in adjoining states as well. Their distribution, dimensions, structure, and fabric and an assessment of the former physical environment preclude their origin as permafrost features. They appear to be tension fractures produced by the loading of coarse clastics on fine clastics near and below the water table where sediments creep toward a stream or depression. Locally movement started with kettle formation during deglaciation. However, some wedges cut horizontal layers of iron-coated sand and gravel and must be younger than those distinctly postglacial phenomena. Moreover, modern B horizons of the overlying soil have moved down into some wedges more than 2 m, indicating that fracturing is still active today. Complex fracture fillings in bedrock also have been attributed to a permafrost origin, but this too seems unlikely. 相似文献
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Thaw modification is the general process whereby frost-fissure wedges are modified during thaw, and by which frost-fissure pseudomorphs may develop. Specific processes of thaw modification are inferred from ice-wedge pseudomorphs, composite-wedge pseudomorphs and deformed sand wedges in the Pleistocene Mackenzie Delta: i.e. thermal erosion, collapse, subsidence, refreezing, loading, buoyancy, spreading, folding and shearing. Thaw modification is believed to result in selective preservation of pseudomorphs and wedges. Sand wedges are more likely to be preserved than are ice-wedge pseudomorphs or compositewedge pseudomorphs, because only those sand wedges that penetrate massive ice or icy sediments are prone to thaw modification. Furthermore, whereas ice wedges preferentially develop in ice-rich, fine-grained sediments (thaw-sensitive), their pseudomorphs appear to be selectively preserved in ice-poor, coarse-grained sediments (thaw-stable). 相似文献
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LEE CLAYTON JOHN W. ATTIG DAVID M. MICKELSON 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》2001,30(3):173-188
Pleistocene permafrost had a major but generally unappreciated effect on the landscape of Wisconsin, second only to glaciation. Evidence for continuous permafrost during the last part of the Wisconsin Glaciation includes ice-wedge casts seen both in outcrop (generally in gravel pits) and as polygonal networks (on aerial photographs). Other important evidence includes fossil tundra organisms. Other features that are probably the result of permafrost in Wisconsin include talus cones, block streams, solifluction rubble at the base of most hillslopes, fluvial cobble gravel, gullies that are today inactive, lake-ice collapse trenches, and ice-walled-lake plains. Permafrost caused accelerated regional erosion of the landscape; most topographic features formed before the last permafrost melted have been highly modified or even destroyed, whereas those formed after are much better preserved. In addition, the presence of permafrost influenced many glacial processes and landforms. Permafrost was present until about 14000 yr BP in the southern part of the state to about 10000 yr BP in the northern part. 相似文献
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Brainerd Mears 《Quaternary Research》1981,15(2):171-198
Nonsorted polygons in the uppermost 2 to 3 m beneath Pleistocene surfaces indicate permafrost at 1340 m and higher elevations in the intermontane and piedmont plains of Wyoming during the Wisconsin, and perhaps earlier, glacial maxima. The polygons, as much as 10 m in diameter, are delineated by wedges that vary in depths, range from narrow to moderately flared forms, and deform host materials. The wedges have silty fine-to-medium sand matrices (largely eolian) with pebbles or clasts from hosts of gravel or bedrock. Some wedges may reflect seasonal cracking in a periglacial active zone, but most are either permafrost sand-wedge relics or, less commonly, ice-wedge casts. Alternative explanations are rejected largely because similar features are apparently lacking in the lower and warmer plains from eastern Colorado southward. The wedges suggest an arid, windy, periglacial environment whose mean-annual temperatures are conservatively estimated as some 10° to 13°C colder than those at present. Although late Wisconsin-early Holocene floral and faunal evidence indicates lowered montane biotic zones, the eolian and periglacial features indicate a lack of extensive forest cover on the basin floors. In conjunction with vertebrate-fossil associations of grazing and tundra animals, the wedges may provide a parallel line of evidence for a former periglacial steppe, or “steppe-tundra”, in the Wyoming basins. 相似文献
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土楔和冰楔假形及其古气候意义 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
由于土楔及冰楔所处冻土的含冰状况不同,二者对冻土退化的响应不同。土楔的形状及大小乃至其中的充填物可以完整地保存下来,而冰楔在融化过程中经受强烈变形,其原形状很难保存下来,以至无法辨认。已报道的冰楔假形中,有相当部分可能是原生土脉,甚至是活动层土楔。冰楔在多年冻土环境下生长,其假形可以指示古冻土曾存在过。但它与温度之间没有简单的对应关系,因为楔形构造的形成是地-气综合因素相互作用之结果。土楔可以是原生的,也可以是次生的,它与多年冻土环境并无必然联系。 相似文献
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The Palisades Site is an extensive silt-loam bluff complex on the central Yukon River preserving a nearly continuous record of the last 2 myr. Volcanic ash deposits present include the Old Crow (OCt; 140,000 yr), Sheep Creek (SCt; 190,000 yr), PA (2.02 myr), EC (ca. 2 myr), and Mining Camp (ca. 2 myr) tephras. Two new tephras, PAL and PAU, are geochemically similar to the PA and EC tephras and appear to be comagmatic. The PA tephra occurs in ice-wedge casts and solifluction deposits, marking the oldest occurrence of permafrost in central Alaska. Three buried forest horizons are present in association with dated tephras. The uppermost forest bed occurs immediately above the OCt; the middle forest horizon occurs below the SCt. The lowest forest bed occurs between the EC and the PA tephras, and correlates with the Dawson Cut Forest Bed. Plant taxa in all three peats are common elements of moist taiga forest found in lowlands of central Alaska today. Large mammal fossils are all from common late Pleistocene taxa. Those recovered in situ came from a single horizon radiocarbon dated to ca. 27,000 14C yr B.P. The incongruous small mammal assemblage in that horizon reflects a diverse landscape with both wet and mesic environments. 相似文献
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Robert F. Black 《Quaternary Research》1976,6(1):3-26
Ice wedges are wedge-shaped masses of ice, oriented vertically with their apices downward, a few millimeters to many meters wide at the top, and generally less than 10 m vertically. Ice wedges grow in and are confined to humid permafrost regions. Snow, hoar frost, or freezing water partly fill winter contraction cracks outlining polygons, commonly 5–20 m in diameter, on the surface of the ground. Moisture comes from the atmosphere. Increments of ice, generally 0.1–2.0 mm, are added annually to wedges which squeeze enclosing permafrost aside and to the surface to produce striking surface patterns. Soil wedges are not confined to permafrost. One type, sand wedges, now grows in arid permafrost regions. Sand wedges are similar in dimensions, patterns, and growth rates to ice wedges. Drifting sand enters winter contraction cracks instead of ice. Fossil ice and sand wedges are the most diagnostic and widespread indicators of former permafrost, but identification is difficult. Any single wedge is untrustworthy. Evidence of fossil ice wedges includes: wedge forms with collapse structures from replacement of ice; polygonal patterns with dimensions comparable to active forms having similar coefficients of thermal expansion; fabrics in the host showing pressure effects; secondary deposits and fabric indicative of a permafrost table; and other evidence of former permafrost. Sand wedges lack open-wedge, collapse structures, but have complex, nearly vertical, crisscrossing narrow dikelets and fabric. Similar soil wedges are produced by wetting and drying, freezing and thawing, solution, faulting, and other mechanisms. Many forms are multigenetic. Many socalled ice-wedge casts are misidentified, and hence, permafrost along the late-Wisconsinan border in the United States was less extensive than has been proposed. 相似文献
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Climate and material controls on periglacial soil processes: Toward improving periglacial climate indicators 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Norikazu Matsuoka 《Quaternary Research》2011,75(2):356-365
One of the distinguished efforts of A.L. Washburn was to reconstruct mean annual air temperature using periglacial features as climate indicators. This paper reviews existing periglacial indicators and proposes a strategy to improve their thermal resolution based on recent periglacial process studies, with a focus on solifluction and thermal contraction cracking and associated landforms/structures. Landforms resulting from solifluction reflect both the depth subjected to freeze-thaw and the thickness of frost-susceptible soils. The thickness of a solifluction structure can be used to infer the dominant freeze-thaw regime and minimum seasonal frost depth. Ice-wedge pseudomorphs have limited potential as a climate indicator because (1) they mainly reflect extreme winter temperatures, (2) their thermal thresholds depend on the host material, and (3) they need to be distinguished from frost wedges of other origin produced under different thermal and/or material conditions. Monitoring studies of currently active ice wedges suggest that ice-wedge cracking requires a combination of low temperature and large temperature gradients in the frozen active layer. Further field monitoring of periglacial processes and their controlling factors under various climate conditions and in various materials are needed, however, to improve the resolution of periglacial paleoclimate indicators. 相似文献