The oxygen isotopic composition and temperature of Southern Ocean bottom waters during the last glacial maximum     

Mitchell J Malone  Jonathan B Martin  Ulysses S Ninnemann  Timothy S White 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2004,222(1):275-283

We provide two new determinations of the oxygen isotopic composition of seawater during the last glacial maximum (LGM). High-resolution oxygen isotopic measurements were made on interstitial waters from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Sites 1168 and 1170 in the southeast Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean. We use a diffusion-advection numerical model to calculate the glacial-interglacial change in bottom-water δ¹⁸O_sw from the pore water δ¹⁸O profiles; the first such determinations from this part of the oceans. Statistical analyses of the model runs indicate that Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) δ¹⁸O_sw changed by 1.0-1.1±0.15‰ since the last glacial maximum (LGM). Our results are consistent with a previous calculation from a South Atlantic Southern Ocean location (ODP Site 1093) also situated within CDW. The new values determined in this study, together with previous estimates, are converging on a global average Δδ¹⁸O_sw of 1.0-1.1‰.Using the calculated bottom-water δ¹⁸O_sw, we have extracted the temperature component from the benthic foraminiferal δ¹⁸O record at Sites 1168 and 1170. Since the LGM, bottom waters at these two sites warmed by 2.6 and 1.9°C, respectively. The absolute temperature estimates for the LGM (−0.5°C [Θ=−0.6°C] at Site 1168 and −0.2°C [Θ=−0.4°C] at Site 1170) are slightly warmer than those reported from previous studies using the same technique, but are consistent with more homogenous deep-ocean temperatures during the LGM relative to the modern.  相似文献   

巴颜喀拉山脉南端末次冰期冰退序列     

李振江 《四川地质学报》2002,22(3):139-141

巴颜喀拉山脉南端位于四川省阿坝县、壤塘县与马尔康县交界地区。该区古冰川遗迹广泛分布，安纳尔措地区末次冰期晚阶段冰碛垅保存有7条，系统的石英ESR测年资料表明，它们均属新仙女木期，构成完整的冰退序列。  相似文献   

黄河上游末次冰盛期古洪水事件的初步研究   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8  

李长安  黄俊华等 《地球科学》2002,27(4):456-458

洪水的发生规律是洪灾预报的前提，已有的人类洪水记录时间尺度，不足以认识和把握洪水的出现规律。因此，利用地质记录延长洪水序列，探讨地球特征气候期的洪水特点，就显得非常重要的必要。黄河上游兰州－银川段的洪水地质记录表明，在末次冰盛期的20－18ka，该区共发生了106次大洪水漫滩事件，其中有18次为多次洪峰叠加的复合型大洪水，洪水的发生频率达53次/ka。发生于末次冰盛期的大洪水可能属冰凌洪水，与末次冰盛期强烈的气候波动和不稳定有关。这些大洪水的频发与中国西部的末次冰盛期出现的高湖面相对应，既不符合一般的季风气候理论，也不同于我国东部广大地区末次冰盛期以冷干为主的气候特点，表明中国西部气候的独特性和复杂性。  相似文献   

Note on simulating the size distribution of glacial cirques     

Fabio V. De Blasio 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2002,27(1):109-114

The glacial cirques of a mountainous region usually have comparable size. Cirque widths between 400 m and 800 m are relatively common, whereas very large and very small cirques are infrequent. Although the presence of an upper limit is probably a result of the limited time available since the epoch of formation, the absence of very small cirques is more problematic. Simple statistical arguments suggest that this feature can be explained if the formation of cirques is very selective and localized in relatively small areas of the landscape. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

A new approach to the relief of Great Britain: III. Derivation of the contribution of neotectonic movements and exceptional regional denudation to the present relief     

Keith Clayton  Nadhim Shamoon 《Geomorphology》1999,27(3-4)

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Greenland glacial history and local geodynamic consequences   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

L. Tarasov  W. Richard Peltier 《Geophysical Journal International》2002,150(1):198-229

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Exposure age chronology of the last glaciation in the eastern Pyrenees   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Magali Delmas  Yanni Gunnell  Régis Braucher  Didier Bourlès 《Quaternary Research》2008,69(2):231-241

We present a chronology of ice recession in the eastern Pyrenees based on in situ-produced ¹⁰Be data obtained from the Têt paleoglacier complex. The sampling strategy is based on the relative chronology provided by a detailed geomorphological map of glacial landforms. Results indicate that the last maximum ice advance occurred late (i.e., during Marine Isotope Stage 2) compared to the chronology currently established for the rest of the Pyrenees. Despite debatable evidence for a glacial readvance during the Oldest Dryas stade, ice-cap melt-out was rapid, residual cirque glaciers having disappeared by the Allerød interstade. This is consistent both with North Atlantic excursions established by the Greenland ice cores and paleoenvironmental data for the region. The rapid response of the east-Pyrenean ice cap to temperature variations is primarily linked to its small size compared to larger Pyrenean ice fields, to the dry Mediterranean climate, and to topography-related nonlinearities in which a small vertical rise in equilibrium line altitude generates a large change in ice mass. Possible sources of age uncertainty are discussed in the context of sampling design for single-nuclide (¹⁰Be) dating of landform sequences in formerly glaciated landscapes.  相似文献   

A problem of total glaciations on the Earth in the Late Precambrian     

N. M. Chumakov 《Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation》2008,16(2):107-119

Ideas of global glaciations on the Earth repeatedly emerged in geology since the middle of the 19th century, but they all did not withstand the test of time. The hypothesis of snowball Earth that suggests long-lasted continuous glaciations over the entire land and oceans in the Late Riphean and Vendian became a popular topic of discussions worldwide. These glaciations must last continuously 15 million years or more owing to enormous stability of climate on the “White Earth,” and one can expect their cessation only when CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere is getting by several orders of magnitude higher in the course of volcanic eruptions. However, many sections of the Late Precambrian glacial deposits evidence repeated alternations of glacial and interglacial events of variable rank and oscillations of glaciers. Consequently, liquid water existed on the Earth, hydrological cycle had not been interrupted, and development of phototrophic phytoplankton, the eukaryotic organisms inclusive, was always in progress. These facts and results of the climate mathematical simulation are inconsistent with the concept of long continuous glaciations over the globe and their consequences. Paleomagnetic data represent main starting point of the snowball Earth hypothesis, although they are to a great extent still of insufficient validity for the Precambrian. Equitable criticism of the hypothesis weak sides turns sometimes into denying all the glacial periods of the Late Proterozoic, when tillites are regarded in majority as deposits of subaqueous slumps and debris flows accumulated on walls of oceanic rifts prograding along splitting lines into the Rodinia continent. Doubtless marks of glaciations in the sedimentary succession are regarded therewith as heterochronous indications of local mountain glaciers on risen shoulders of prograding rifts. Widespread occurrence of the Late Precambrian discrete glacial horizons on the platforms means, however, that glaciations of that time have been associated not always with the rifts and consisted of separate glacial events. Glaciogenic horizons comparable in thickness and structure with those of the Phanerozoic Eonothem are also indicative of discrete glacial periods in the Precambrian. Being confined predominantly to the Late Precambrian succession of rifts, these horizons characterize a high burial potential of these structures, whereas outside them glacial horizons of lesser thickness could be easily subjected to erosion. The hypothesis of snowball Earth is inadequately consistent with well-known facts and needs in additional substantiation. There are also grounds to think that oceans have not been completely covered with ice at the time of Precambrian glaciations.  相似文献   

克里雅河下游沉积物的光释光年龄与晚更新世末以来沙漠的形成     

张峰  王姣  马丽  迪丽拜尔·吐尔孙 《地理学报》2021,76(9):2240-2252

有关塔克拉玛干沙漠演化的年代学数据尚少,本文在地貌认知较少的克里雅河下游沙漠深处的圆沙和喀拉墩一带16处剖面获取了18件河流沉积光释光（OSL）年龄。新测得的年龄数据分布于3.4—44.1 ka。全新世样品多分布于圆沙与喀拉墩干三角洲及其之间的地区,年龄集中在11 ka、8—9 ka、5—6.5 ka、4.6 ka与3.4—3.7 ka。深海氧同位素3阶段（MIS3）样品位置在克里雅河与和田河之间,分布在约38—47 ka前后。末次冰期冰盛期（LGM）末样品分布在通往圆沙古河道的西侧,年龄在14.5 ka前后。根据沉积物样品及年代学数据认为：克里雅河下游曾在MIS3阶段末、LGM末与全新世多次发生洪泛;数次的洪泛事件对克里雅河下游地貌发育产生重要影响;克里雅河下游干三角洲及现代河流西侧的流动沙丘主要形成于全新世,与前人“发育于汉唐以来”的观点不完全一致。克里雅河下游河流沉积发生时间与塔里木盆地周缘山脉冰进冰消有一定对应,暗示气候变化可能间接影响着塔克拉玛干沙漠沙丘的发育。  相似文献   

Evaluation of ASTER GDEM and SRTM and their suitability in hydraulic modelling of a glacial lake outburst flood in southeast Tibet     

Weicai Wang  Xiaoxin Yang  Tandong Yao 《水文研究》2012,26(2):213-225

The resolution and accuracy of digital elevation models (DEMs) can affect the hydraulic simulation results for predicting the effects of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs). However, for the Tibetan Plateau, high‐quality DEM data are often not available, leaving researchers with near‐global, freely available DEMs, such as the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Global Digital Elevation Model (ASTER GDEM) and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data (SRTM) for hydraulic modelling. This study explores the suitability of these two freely available DEMs for hydraulic modelling of GLOFs. Our study focused on the flood plain of a potentially dangerous glacial lake in southeastern Tibet, to evaluate the elevation accuracy of ASTER GDEM and SRTM, and their suitability for hydraulic modelling of GLOFs. The elevation accuracies of ASTER GDEM and SRTM were first validated against field global position system (GPS) survey points, and then evaluated with reference to the relatively high precision of 1:50 000 scale DEM (DEM5) constructed from aerial photography. Moreover, the DEM5, ASTER GDEM and SRTM were used as basic topographic data to simulate peak discharge propagation, as well as flood inundation extent and depth in the Hydrologic Engineering Center's River Analysis System one‐dimensional hydraulic model. Results of the three DEM predictions were compared to evaluate the suitability of ASTER GDEM and SRTM for GLOF hydraulic modelling. Comparisons of ASTER GDEM and SRTM each with DEM5 in the flood plain area show root‐mean‐square errors between the former two as ± 15·4 m and between the latter two as ± 13·5 m. Although SRTM overestimates and ASTER GDEM underestimates valley floor elevations, both DEMs can be used to extract the elevations of required geometric data, i.e. stream centre lines, bank lines and cross sections, for flood modelling. However, small errors still exist in the cross sections that may influence the propagation of peak discharge. The flood inundation extent and mean water depths derived from ASTER GDEM predictions are only 2·2% larger and 2·3‐m deeper than that of the DEM5 predictions, whereas the SRTM yields a flood zone extent 6·8% larger than the DEM5 prediction and a mean water depth 2·4‐m shallower than the DEM5 prediction. The modelling shows that, in the absence of high‐precision DEM data, ASTER GDEM or SRTM DEM can be relied on for simulating extreme GLOFs in southeast Tibet. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献