Reconstruction of paleotemperatures in the Northwest Pacific over the past 3000 years from δO values of the micro-bivalvia Carditella iejimensis found in a submarine cave     

Nagisa Yamamoto  Akihisa Kitamura  Tomohisa Irino  Tomoki Kase  Syu-ichi Ohashi 《Global and Planetary Change》2008,62(1-2):97-106

We measured the δ¹⁸O values of the whole shells of the cavernicolous micro-bivalvia Carditella iejimensis obtained from sediments within a submarine cave (31 m water depth) at Ie Island (Okinawa Island, Japan) in the subtropical Northwest Pacific. Our results show no significant millennial-scale trend in the δ¹⁸O record, implying that both springtime temperature and the δ¹⁸O of sea water at 30 m depth around the Okinawa Islands have been stable for the past 3000 years at values similar to those of today. Moreover, we found one exceptionally light δ¹⁸O value from specimens spanning the past 250 years. The δ¹⁸O-derived temperature represents a departure of 2.1 °C from the average value for the past 250 years, being equal to the departure recorded during unusually high temperatures in the spring of 1998. This finding may imply that such high springtime sea surface temperature has been a rare event over the past 3000 years.  相似文献   

Detection of rapid climate change in Last Glacial fluvial successions in The Netherlands     

J. van Huissteden  C. Kasse 《Global and Planetary Change》2001,28(1-4)

Climate change during the Last Glacial is considered as a major forcing factor of fluvial system changes. A continuous succession of fluvial sediments, reflecting adaptations to climate change from the Weichselian Middle Pleniglacial (oxygen isotope stage 3) onwards, occurs in lowland river basins in the Netherlands.A comparison of the Pleniglacial and Late Glacial fluvial record in the Netherlands shows that climatic oscillations of similar magnitude did not produce changes in the fluvial sedimentary system of equal magnitude. The Late Glacial fluvial system proves to be highly sensitive to climate change. By contrast, many of the rapid climate changes that have occurred during oxygen isotope stage 3, according to the Greenland ice core record, are not detectable in the fluvial sediments. This can be explained by differences in the impact of the climate variations on drainage basin vegetation. During the Late Glacial, the tree line repeatedly shifted through the Netherlands, whereas the area remained within the tundra zone during the Middle Pleniglacial. Precipitation variations and permafrost aggradation and degradation have played a secondary role.The Weichselian fluvial succession in the Netherlands demonstrates that detection of a change in the fluvial sedimentary system and relating this change to climate change is subject to methodological limitations. The climatic significance of changes in the fluvial record should be carefully evaluated, as well as their chronology. The possibility that climate did not influence the fluvial system should always be considered as a null hypothesis in studies on fluvial successions.  相似文献   

西藏台错古湖沉积物中的硅藻及其古环境   总被引：6，自引：2，他引：6       下载免费PDF全文

李家英  郑锦平  魏乐军 《地质学报》2005,79(3):295-302

根据硅藻组成、丰度及其生态特征的研究，可以恢复西藏台错古湖地区的古气候演变：在17．8～16．0kaBP经历了气候严寒期；16．0～13．9ka BP为回暖期；在11．5～10．7ka BP气候发生波动性变化，从较暖湿期到寒冷干旱的新仙女木期；在10．4～9．0ka BP气候略有变化，但总体上仍处于寒冷干旱期；在9．O～8．2ka BP转为为凉干期；6．3～5．4ka BP变为暖湿期；在5．4～4．5ka BP变为温暖、干旱期。由此可以看出，该区古气候演变除有仟年级的变化周期外，还可能存在有百年的气候期。自晚更新世晚期以来台错古湖随着古气候的演变，经历了缓慢扩张，湖水变深，而后又缓慢萎缩，湖水变浅，直至强烈的持续干旱，导致湖泊水位的聚降，使湖泊干枯消失。  相似文献   

刘鸿允教授的《中国古地理图》和他对古地理学的贡献          下载免费PDF全文

张启锐 《古地理学报》1999,1(1):93-96

刘鸿允教授的代表作《中国古地理图》自1955年正式出版至今已43年。虽然在其后,随着我国地质工作向纵深的发展,在系统性、科学性、准确性等方面都有很大改进的古地理图  相似文献