Chronology of Early to Mid-Pleistocene sediments in the northern North Sea: New evidence from amino acid and strontium isotope analyses     

《Quaternary Geochronology》2022

Sediments deposited during glacial-interglacial cycles through the Early to Mid-Pleistocene in the North Sea are chronologically poorly constrained. To contribute to the chronology of these units, amino acid racemization (AAR) and strontium (Sr) isotope analyses have been performed on samples from four shallow borings and one oil well along a transect in the northern North Sea. D/L Asp (aspartic acid) values obtained through reverse-phase liquid chromatography in the benthic foraminiferal species Elphidium excavatum is focused on because of consistent results and a good stratigraphic distribution of this benthic species. For the Early Pleistocene, an age model for the well 16/1–8, from the central part of the northern North Sea based on Sr ages allows for dating of the prograding wedges filling the pre-Quaternary central basin. A regional calibration curve for the racemization of Asp in Elphidium excavatum is developed using published ages of radiocarbon-dated samples and samples associated with the previously identified Bruhnes/Matuyama (B/M) paleomagnetic boundary and a Sr age from this study. Based on all the available geochronological evidence, samples were assigned to marine oxygen isotope stages (MIS) with uncertainties on the order of 10–70 ka.Sr ages suggest a hiatus of <2 million years (Ma) possibly due to non-deposition or low sedimentation between the Utsira Formation (Pliocene) and the Early Pleistocene. An increase in sedimentation rates around 1.5 ± 0.07 Ma (∼MIS 51) may partly be due to sediment supply from rivers from the south-east and partly due to the extension of ice sheet around 1.36 ± 0.07 Ma from the Norwegian coast to the central North Sea. A possible basin-wide glaciation occurred around 1.1 Ma (∼ MIS 32) (upper regional unconformity/top of unit Q4 in this study), resulting in erosion and regional unconformity. Two interglacials in the Norwegian Channel have been dated: the Radøy Interglacial to 1.07 ± 0.01 Ma (possibly MIS 31, the ‘super interglacial’), and the Norwegian Trench Interglacial to 0.50 ± 0.02 Ma (possibly MIS 13). A massive till unit identified at the same stratigraphic level in all shallow borings may partly represent an extensive MIS 12 glaciation. This study shows that the combined use of amino acid racemization data and Sr isotope chronology can refine the chronological ambiguities of Quaternary North Sea sediments related partly to the impact of glacial processes.  相似文献   

前散式和透射式能见度仪的综合观测试验及对比分析北大核心          下载免费PDF全文

王惠颖  祖繁  袁成松  包云轩  吴泓  褚进华 《气象科学》2022,42(2):225-234

通过在野外观测基地和能见度计量检测实验室开展的前散式和透射式能见度仪对比观测试验,获取了能见度和其他气象与环境要素的同步观测数据,分析了不同大气环境条件下能见度测量值差异及其产生原因。结果表明:在能见度环境模拟舱内,两种能见度仪的测量值具有较好的一致性,但在自然环境中,两种能见度仪的测量值差异随能见度上升而快速增大。在不同天气现象出现时,前向散射仪与大气透射仪的测量值比值(VIS_(FS)/VIS_(T))规律性变化明显,总体呈现随能见度上升而增大的趋势。无降水时,低湿情况下大气颗粒物吸收作用明显,透射能见度仪测量值远小于前散能见度仪测量值,两者均随PM_(2.5)质量浓度的增加而下降,且其差异也随之减小;高湿情况下大气颗粒物的散射作用在大气消光中占绝对优势,两种能见度仪测量值趋近。  相似文献