Evidence for a transgressive barrier within a regressive strandplain system: Implications for complex coastal response to environmental change     

DUNCAN M. FitzGERALD  WILLIAM J. CLEARY  JOAO THADEU De MENEZES  ANTONIO H. da F. KLEIN 《Sedimentology》2013,60(2):469-502

Clastic, depositional strandplain systems have the potential to record changes in the primary drivers of coastal evolution: climate, sea‐level, and the frequency of major meteorological and oceanographic events. This study seeks to use one such record from a southern Brazilian strandplain to highlight the potentially‐complex nature of coastal sedimentological response to small changes in these drivers. Following a 2 to 4 m highstand at ca 5·8 ka in southern Brazil, falling sea‐level reworked shelf sediment onshore, forcing coastal progradation, smoothing the irregular coastline and forming the 5 km wide Pinheira Strandplain, composed of ca 500 successive beach and dune ridges. Sediment cores, grab samples and >11 km of ground‐penetrating radar profiles reveal that the strandplain sequence is composed of well‐sorted, fine to very‐fine quartz sand. Since the mid‐Holocene highstand, the shoreline prograded at a rate of ca 1 to 2 m yr^?1 through the deposition of a 4 to 6 m thick shoreface unit; a 1 to 3 m thick foreshore unit containing ubiquitous ridge and runnel facies; and an uppermost beach and foredune unit. However, the discovery of a linear, 100 m wide barrier ridge with associated washover units, a 3 to 4 m deep lagoon and 250 m wide tidal inlet within the strandplain sequence reveals a period of shoreline transgression at 3·3 to 2·8 ka during the otherwise regressive developmental history of the plain. The protected nature of Pinheira largely buffered it from changes in precipitation patterns, wave energy and fluvial sediment supply during the time of its formation. However, multiple lines of evidence indicate that a change in the rate of relative sea‐level fall, probably due to either steric or ice‐volume effects, may have affected this coastline. Thus, whereas these other potential drivers cannot be fully discounted, this study provides insights into the complexity of decadal‐scale to millennial‐scale coastal response to likely variability in sea‐level change rates.  相似文献   

塔里木西北部乌什—柯坪—巴楚地区古生代沉积—构造演化及成盆动力学背景沉积—构造演化及成盆动力学背景   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0       下载免费PDF全文

吴根耀  李曰俊  刘亚雷  赵岩 《古地理学报》2013,15(2):203-218

把柯坪断隆“还原”为塔里木板块的一部分,重塑了它与北邻的乌什地区和南邻的巴楚地区古生代“分分”“合合”的演化史,得到以下重要认识。（1）奥陶纪在乌什、柯坪和巴楚一间房地区发育以东西向的古吐木休克断层为南界的台盆;该断层的西段后期被柯坪塔格断裂（东西走向段）迁就利用,中—东段后期因被肢解而“消失”。（2）柯坪地区最西部中泥盆世已有海相沉积,晚泥盆世—石炭纪海侵不断向东扩展;因南天山洋的消减在柯坪—阿克苏—库车一线形成横贯塔里木北缘的石炭纪隆起带,使得塔里木中—北部上泥盆统—石炭系的沉积相有清楚的空间展布规律。（3）据同位素年龄值将柯坪地区东段玄武岩的时代更正为早二叠世,强烈火成活动造成的热隆升使该地区早二叠世即出现陆相沉积;塔西北的其他地区石炭纪末—早二叠世普遍发生海侵。（4）从与南天山洋和西昆仑洋耦合演化的角度简要探讨了塔里木西北地区古生代的成盆动力学背景,认为古生代有东西向、北西向及北东向的控盆和控相断裂发育并总结了其后期演化的特点。  相似文献   

珠江三角洲晚第四纪沉积的OSL和¹⁴C年龄探讨   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

郭良田  王萍张珂盛强赵华  王成敏 《中国地质》2013,40(6):1842-1849

提要：珠江三角洲第四纪沉积的年代测定在三角洲的发育演化、古海平面变化以及断裂活动性研究等方面具有重要意义。对东江平原的7个钻孔岩心进行了14C和OSL测年以及孢粉和微体古生物分析。与前人主要根据14C年龄得到珠江三角洲沉积小于4万年的认识不同,OSL测年结果显示下部地层的年龄值为4.7~13.5万年。本文对年龄的信度以及晚第四纪两次海侵旋回的地层年代框架进行了初步分析,提出珠江三角洲地区第一次海侵旋回可能发生于距今4~10万年期间;在晚更新世与全新世两次海侵之间,三角洲地区长期暴露地表,出现较大跨度的地层缺失。  相似文献   

Holocene stratigraphic and morphological evolution of the Wandandian Creek delta,St Georges Basin,New South Wales     

C. A. Hopley  B. G. Jones 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(6):991-1000

Subaerial exposure beside the Wandandian Creek channel during the last glacial maximum led to the development of red and orange mottling and, in some areas, produced a palaeosol over the Pleistocene land surface. Incision of the palaeo-Wandandian Creek, during the Late Pleistocene, formed a relatively deep steep-sided channel partially infilled with medium-grained fluvial sand. This palaeovalley became drowned as the post-glacial marine transgression impounded the western portion of St Georges Basin and the basal prodelta/lagoonal mud facies was deposited from ca 7 ka. The Wandandian Creek delta prograded down the palaeovalley and reached the study area ～3500 – 4000 years ago with the deposition of delta-front sandy silt and the overlying prograded sand facies. The subaerial portion of the delta is characterised by well-developed floodplains, levees, mouth bars and backswamps. Dredging in Wandandian Creek and land clearing for rural and urban development have had little long-term effect on the growth and morphology of Wandandian Creek delta.  相似文献   

珠江三角洲西缘晚第四纪沉积演化和最大海侵古岸线的重建     

周良  王洋  杜学斌  卜建军  吴俊  吕万军  刘秀娟 《沉积学报》2022,40(1):119-135

第四纪以来,受全球气候和海平面变化影响,海岸带地区发生了一系列强烈的海陆相互作用和海侵—海退等地质事件,包含了丰富的沉积环境演化和海平面变化等信息.选用珠江三角洲西缘台山地区的30个地质钻孔,通过14C、光释光、地球化学特征、底栖有孔虫、磁化率数据,建立了晚更新世以来的地层框架,重建了最大海侵古岸线的位置.研究结果表明...  相似文献   

Total sediment budget of a transgressive barrier-spit,Skallingen, SW Denmark: A review     

Christian Christiansen  Troels Aagaard  Jesper Bartholdy  Merete Christiansen  Jørgen Nielsen  Niels Nielsen 《Geografisk tidskrift / udgivet af Bestyrelsen for Det Kongelige danske geografiske selskab》2013,113(1):107-126

Average sea-level rise in the northern part of the Danish Wadden Sea has been 1.3 mm a^?1 during the last 100 years but during the last 25 years a rise of 4.2 mm a^?1 was observed. Concurrent with the recent sea-level rise the Skallingen barrier spit has migrated landward by 3–5 m a^?1. Long term sediment budgets for each of the morphological units involved in the migration are reviewed (e.g. onshore in the shore face +90.000 m³ a^?1, longshore -641.000 m³ a^?1, foredunes +65,000 m³ a^?1, overwash fan including shorenormal dunes +11,000 m³ a^?1, spit terminus -96,000 m³ a^?1, tidal flat + 10,000 m³ a^?1 and backbarrier salt marsh +33,000 m³ a^?1) and used to establish the relative importance of sediment transport processes involved in barrier migration. Strong interannual variations exist in the long term budget making evaluation of barrier behaviour based on short term measurements doubtful. In a cross shore sense the barrier spit is accreting in spite of the sea level rise. This is specially pronounced at an active overwash fan. However, due to substantial sediment losses to longshore transport the barrier, gets narrower and shorter during its transgressive behaviour. This may indicate that preservation of barriers in the geological record during rapid sea level rise is promoted when sediment loss to longshore transport is insignificant.  相似文献   

An exceptional rocky shore preserved during Oligocene (Late Rupelian) transgression in the Upper Rhine Graben (Mainz Basin,Germany)     

Stephane Rousse  Philippe Duringer  Karl R. G. Stapf 《Geological Journal》2012,47(4):388-408

The Early Oligocene (Late Rupelian) Alzey Formation (Mainz Basin, Upper Rhine Graben, Germany) records the development of a rocky coast depositional system during transgression. The formation unconformably overlies Permian bedrock across a composite transgressive ravinement surface. Exposure of the surface shows a succession of subplanar bedrock terraces, separated by near‐vertical risers. Terraces show a broad staircase geometry and display wave‐erosional features (notches, sea stacks, furrows). Detailed sedimentological and palaeoecological investigations reveal prograding beachface and shoreface depositional units that overlie terraces and are adjacent to risers. Terraces are interpreted as wave‐cut platforms, backed by palaeocliffs. The staircase architecture records the episodic landward migration of palaeoshorelines onto palaeotopographic highs during the Early Oligocene. Stacking patterns of gravelly beach and shoreface associated units (facies tracts) indicate successive episodes of terrace cutting, beach development, drowning and shoreline backstepping during an overall relative sea‐level rise. The exceptional preservation of the stair‐cased rocky shore may be attributed to a highly jerky rising relative sea‐level, as the result of the conjugated effects of rift‐controlled tectonic subsidence and eustatic sea‐level oscillations. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

陆表海盆地海侵事件成煤作用机制分析   总被引：29，自引：4，他引：25  

李增学  余继峰  郭建斌  韩美莲 《沉积学报》2003,21(2):288-296,306

研究了含煤地层中海侵事件沉积序列,即海侵沉积与煤层直接接触的组合特点,总结了海侵事件和海侵事件成煤特点,提出了陆表海聚煤盆地海侵事件成煤作用理论及海侵事件成煤机制。研究表明,陆表海盆地充填沉积序列中,既有海退成煤作用又有海侵成煤作用发生,而且,海侵事件为陆表海盆地海平面变化的典型特色,海侵的突发性是海侵事件的基本属性,其沉积具有等时性。海侵事件导致盆地事件型聚煤作用发生。本文还深入讨论了海侵事件成煤机制及其在含煤地层层序地层界面识别、层序地层单元划分的重要意义和作用。  相似文献   

Holocene aridity and storm phases, Gulf and Atlantic coasts, USA     

Ervin G. Otvos 《Quaternary Research》2005,63(3):1001-373

A bottomland flora that prevailed between 9900 and 6000 cal yr B.P. in a North Carolina stream valley may not reflect a regionally much wetter Atlantic climate, coeval with record drought in the Great Plains region and assumed dry Gulf coastal conditions. Such conditions were inferred for 6000 ± 1000 yr ago when the Bermuda High may have consistently occupied summer positions far to the NE. Arid episodes coeval with the Little River local wet interval are known from eolian sediments and pollen spectra in the Atlantic and the Gulf coastal plain. For multiple reasons, the regional extent, intensity, and duration of coastal aridity and alternating wet phases and the Bermuda High positions are not yet adequately constrained. The climate and edaphic causes for the steadily growing predominance of southern pines over hardwoods, achieved between 8900 and 4200 cal yr B.P. at different sites at different times are similarly still unresolved. New data from Shelby Lake, AL, reconfirms that no credible field or other proxy evidence exists for a previously postulated “catastrophic Gulf hurricane phase” in the late Holocene.  相似文献   

下辽河平原和辽东半岛海岸带晚更新世以来的海侵   总被引：12，自引：2，他引：10  

符文侠 《地理研究》1988,7(2):73-80

本文根据钻孔资料、¹⁴C测年数据、微体古生物及孢粉组合特征,讨论了研究区晚更新世以来海侵的次数、规模、时间以及岸线变化。  相似文献