Isolation basin stratigraphy and Holocene relative sea-level change on Arveprinsen Ejland,Disko Bugt,West Greenland     

Antony J. Long  David H. Roberts  Matthew R. Wright 《第四纪科学杂志》1999,14(4):323-345

This paper presents the results of an investigation into Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) change, isostatic rebound and ice sheet dynamics in Disko Bugt, West Greenland. Data collected from nine isolation basins on Arveprinsen Ejland, east Disko Bugt, show that mean sea level fell continuously from ca. 70 m at 9.9 ka cal. yr BP (8.9 ka ¹⁴C yr BP) to reach a minimum of ca. −5 m at 2.8 ka cal. yr BP (2.5 ka ¹⁴C yr BP), before rising to the present day. A west–east gradient in isostatic uplift across Disko Bugt is confirmed, with reduced rebound observed in east Disko Bugt. However, RSL differences (up to 20 m at 7.8 ka to 6.8 ka cal. yr BP (7 ka to 6 ka ¹⁴C yr BP)) also exist within east Disko Bugt, suggesting a significant north–south component to the area’s isostatic history. The observed magnitude and timing of late Holocene RSL rise is not compatible with regional forebulge collapse. Instead, RSL rise began first in the eastern part of the bay, as might be expected under a scenario of crustal subsidence caused by neoglacial ice sheet readvance. The results of this study demonstrate the potential of isolation basin data for local and regional RSL studies in Greenland, and the importance of avoiding data compilations from areas where the isobase orientation is uncertain. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Support for the Innuitian Ice Sheet in the Canadian High Arctic during the Last Glacial Maximum     

John England 《第四纪科学杂志》1998,13(3):275-280

The extent of glacier ice in the Canadian High Arctic during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) has been debated for decades. One school proposed a regional Innuitian Ice Sheet whereas another proposed a smaller, non-contiguous Franklin Ice Complex. Research throughout western Nares Strait supports coalescent Innuitian and Greenland ice during the LGM, based on widespread glacial and marine deposits dated by ¹⁴C and amino acid analyses. This coalescence likely promoted a vigorous regional ice flow westward across Ellesmere Island to Eureka Sound. Post-glacial emergence in Eureka Sound suggests a former ice thickness at least as great as that in Nares Strait (≥ 1 km). Recently, independent field studies elsewhere in the High Arctic also support an Innuitian Ice Sheet during the LGM. Collectively, these studies resolve a long-standing debate, and initiate new opportunities concerning the reconstruction of high-latitude palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic change. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

龙岗古陆南缘光华岩群地质特征及时代探讨   总被引：5，自引：4，他引：1  

欧祥喜  马云国 《吉林地质》2000,19(3):16-25

吉林省通化市北部光华乡一带,发育有一套由变质基性席状岩墙、变质气孔状玄武岩、黑云变粒岩、大理岩、含榴二云片岩、变质流纹岩为组合的中-浅变质岩系.该套岩系岩石组合、变质程度均有别于龙岗古陆内的太古宙上壳岩.具有陆内裂谷环境下形成的双峰式火山岩建造特征.依据区域地层对比、岩石组合特征、同位素年龄资料,与周围侵入岩的相互关系,结合本地区地壳演化历史综合分析认为,其形成时代当属早元古宙,建立光华岩群.  相似文献   

Complex kame belt morphology,stratigraphy and architecture     

Harold Lovell  Stephen J. Livingstone  Clare M. Boston  Adam D. Booth  Robert D. Storrar  Iestyn D. Barr 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2019,44(13):2685-2702

The development of glacier karst at the margins of melting ice sheets produces complex glaciofluvial sediment-landform assemblages that provide information on ice sheet downwasting processes. We present the first combined geomorphological, sedimentological and geophysical investigation of the Brampton Kame Belt, an important glaciofluvial depositional zone at the centre of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data allow the broad scale internal architecture of ridges (eskers) and flat-topped hills (ice-walled lake plains) to be determined at four sites. In combination with sediment exposures, these provide information on lateral and vertical variations in accretion styles, depositional boundaries, and grain size changes. Building on existing work on the subject, we propose a refined model for the formation of ice-walled lake plains resulting from the evolution and collapse of major drainage axes into lakes as stable glacier karst develops during deglaciation. The internal structure of esker ridges demonstrates variations in sedimentation that can be linked to differences in ridge morphologies across the kame belt. This includes low energy flow conditions and multiple accretion phases identified within large S-N oriented esker ridges; and fluctuating water pressures, hyperconcentrated flows, and significant deformation within a fragmented SW–NE oriented esker ridge. In combination with updated geomorphological mapping, this work allows us to identify two main styles of drainage within the kame belt: (1) major drainage axes aligned broadly S-N that extend through the entire kame belt and collapsed into a chain of ice-walled lakes; and (2) a series of smaller, fragmented SW–NE aligned esker ridges that represent ice-marginal drainage as the ice sheet receded south-eastwards up the Vale of Eden. Our study demonstrates the importance of integrated geomorphological, sedimentological and geophysical investigations in order to understand complex and polyphase glaciofluvial sediment-landform assemblages. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

The changing Patagonian landscape: Erosion and westward sediment transfer paths in northern Patagonia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene     

Tania Villaseñor  Daniel Tentori  Kathleen M. Marsaglia  Luisa Pinto 《Basin Research》2020,32(5):1035-1053

Pleistocene glaciations have promoted important landscape transformations as a result of high rates of erosion and rapid sediment evacuation to adjacent marine basins. In the Patagonian Andes the role of the Patagonian Ice Sheet on landscape evolution, in particular the spatial patterns of glacial erosion and its influence on sediment fluxes, is poorly documented. Here, we investigate the Middle and Late Pleistocene sedimentary record of the continental slope from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 861, offshore Patagonia (46°S), to evaluate the link between glaciations, mountain range erosion and continental margin strata formation. Petrographic analysis of the sand-size fraction (0.063–2 mm) and ɛNd and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr measurements in the silt-size fraction (10–63 µm) indicate that glacial erosion over the last 350,000 years has focused within the Patagonian Batholith, with a minor influence of a proximal source to the drilling site, the Chonos Metamorphic Complex. This shows that erosion has focused in the core of the northern Patagonian Andes, coinciding roughly with the location of the Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault Zone and the zone of concentrated precipitation during glaciations, suggesting a combined climatic and structural control on glacial erosion. Temporal variation in the provenance signal is contemporaneous with a marked change in the stratigraphy of ODP Site 861 that occurred after the glaciation of MIS 8 (~240 kyr ago). Before MIS 8, a restricted provenance signal and coarse lithofacies accumulated on the continental slope indicates spatially restricted erosion and efficient transfer of sediment towards the ocean. In contrast, very high provenance variability and finer continental slope lithofacies accumulation after MIS 8 suggest a disorganized expansion of the areas under erosion and a more distal influence of ice sediment discharge to this site. We argue that this change may have been related to a re-organization of the drainage patterns of the Patagonian Ice Sheet and flow of outlet glaciers to the continental margin during the last two glaciations.  相似文献   

Deglaciation chronology of the Donegal Ice Centre,north‐west Ireland     

Peter Wilson  Colin K. Ballantyne  Sara Benetti  David Small  Derek Fabel  Chris D. Clark 《第四纪科学杂志》2019,34(1):16-28

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Geomorphological and seismostratigraphic evidence for multidirectional polyphase glaciation of the northern Celtic Sea     

Zsuzsanna Tóth  Stephen McCarron  Andrew J. Wheeler  Stefan Wenau  Stephen Davis  Aaron Lim  Volkhard Spiess 《第四纪科学杂志》2020,35(3):465-478

High-resolution seismic and bathymetric data offshore southeast Ireland and LIDaR data in County Waterford are presented that partially overlap previous studies. The observed Quaternary stratigraphic succession offshore southeast Ireland (between Dungarvan and Kilmore Quay) records a sequence of depositional and erosional events that supports regional glacial models derived from nearby coastal sediment stratigraphies and landforms. A regionally widespread, acoustically massive facies interpreted as the ‘Irish Sea Till’ infills an uneven, channelized bedrock surface overlying irregular mounds and deposits in bedrock lows that are probably earlier Pleistocene diamicts. The till is truncated and overlain by a thin, stratified facies, suggesting the development of a regional palaeolake following ice recession of the Irish Sea Ice Stream. A north–south oriented seabed ridge to the north is interpreted as an esker, representing southward flowing subglacial drainage associated with a restricted ice sheet advance of the Irish Ice Sheet onto the Celtic Sea shelf. Onshore topographic data reveal streamlined bedforms that corroborate a southerly advance of ice onto the shelf across County Waterford. The combined evidence supports previous palaeoglaciological models. Significantly, for the first time, this study defines a southern limit for a Late Midlandian Irish Ice Sheet advance onto the Celtic Sea shelf. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Constraining the geometry and volume of the Barents Sea Ice Sheet          下载免费PDF全文

Samuel B. Kachuck  Lawrence M. Cathles 《第四纪科学杂志》2018,33(5):527-535

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新疆西昆仑天文点一带发现早更新世冰碛层及其意义     

崔建堂  韩芳林  王炬川  罗乾周  边小卫 《陕西地质》2009,27(2):48-52

前人曾经提出青藏高原早更新世存在一次大冰期,但苦于未找到冰碛层而未曾被人们重视。本次《康西瓦》、《恰哈》、《岔路口》、《阿克萨依湖》四幅1：25万区域地质调查项目,2003年在《岔路口》幅天文点一乔尔天坦一带野外地质调查工作中,首次发现了早更新世冰碛层,其分布特征与现代地形地貌无直接关系,说明该期冰碛层形成之后,地壳还发生了差异隆升。该冰碛层的发现对确定青藏高原早更新世冰期的存在,提供了直接的证据,对研究青藏高原“大冰盖”和“统一大湖”学说提供了可靠的资料,对进一步研究大陆动力学及地壳构造演化具有重要意义。  相似文献   

Parametric studies of DDC-induced deflections of sheet pile walls in soft soils     

Yong Tan  Ye Lu 《Computers and Geotechnics》2009

This paper presents a thorough finite element (FE) parametric study of sheet pile wall deflections caused by deep dynamic compaction (DDC). In this study, the effects of several parameters which may affect the wall deflections were investigated. These parameters are (1) wall embedment length; (2) tamping distance; (3) impact energy per blow; (4) blow counts; (5) soil types on the supporting side of sheet pile walls; and (6) wall stiffness. The effects of these parameters were quantified and discussed, and the factors that help to reduce wall deflections were identified. A series of figures which depict the effects of these parameters were generated. Finally, some suggestions and recommendations for design and construction were reached.  相似文献