High‐resolution reconstruction of a coastal barrier system: impact of Holocene sea‐level change          下载免费PDF全文

Mikkel Fruergaard  Thorbjørn J. Andersen  Lars H. Nielsen  Peter N. Johannessen  Troels Aagaard  Morten Pejrup 《Sedimentology》2015,62(3):928-969

This study presents a detailed reconstruction of the sedimentary effects of Holocene sea‐level rise on a modern coastal barrier system. Increasing concern over the evolution of coastal barrier systems due to future accelerated rates of sea‐level rise calls for a better understanding of coastal barrier response to sea‐level changes. The complex evolution and sequence stratigraphic framework of the investigated coastal barrier system is reconstructed using facies analysis, high‐resolution optically stimulated luminescence and radiocarbon dating. During the formation of the coastal barrier system starting 8 to 7 ka rapid relative sea‐level rise outpaced sediment accumulation. Not before rates of relative sea‐level rise had decreased to ca 2 mm yr^?1 did sediment accumulation outpace sea‐level rise. From ca 5·5 ka, rates of regionally averaged sediment accumulation increased to 4·3 mm yr^?1 and the back‐barrier basin was filled in. This increase in sediment accumulation resulted from retreat of the barrier island and probably also due to formation of a tidal inlet close to the study area. Continued transgression and shoreface retreat created a distinct hiatus and wave ravinement surface in the seaward part of the coastal barrier system before the barrier shoreline stabilized between 5·0 ka and 4·5 ka. Back‐barrier shoreline erosion due to sediment starvation in the back‐barrier basin was pronounced from 4·5 to 2·5 ka but, in the last 2·5 kyr, barrier sedimentation has kept up with and outpaced sea‐level. In the last 0·4 kyr the coastal barrier system has been prograding episodically. Sediment accumulation shows considerable variation, with periods of rapid sediment deposition and periods of non‐deposition or erosion resulting in a highly punctuated sediment record. The study demonstrates how core‐based facies interpretations supported by a high‐resolution chronology and a well‐documented sea‐level history allow identification of depositional environments, erosion surfaces and hiatuses within a very homogeneous stratigraphy, and allow a detailed temporal reconstruction of a coastal barrier system in relation to sea‐level rise and sediment supply.  相似文献   

Dimensions and deglacial chronology of the Outer Hebrides Ice Cap,northwest Scotland: implications of cosmic ray exposure dating     

John O. Stone  Colin K. Ballantyne 《第四纪科学杂志》2006,21(1):75-84

Cosmic ray exposure ages of frost-weathered bedrock from mountain summits in the Outer Hebrides exceed the age of Late Devensian glaciation. Exposure ages of most glacially-abraded bedrock surfaces at low and intermediate elevations are younger than the age of maximum Late Devensian glaciation. These results confirm that previously mapped periglacial trimlines in the Outer Hebrides define the upper limit of bedrock erosion by Late Devensian ice. They are consistent with the interpretation, based on geomorphological evidence, that the trimlines mark the approximate upper limit of a Late Devensian Outer Hebrides Ice Cap. A postglacial exposure age from the summit of Oreval (662 m) suggests that this mountain was overrun during the last glaciation, indicating thicker ice cover and a lower surface gradient west of the ice-cap divide than previously inferred. Although bedrock surfaces below the trimlines are strongly ice-moulded, some show evidence of prior cosmic ray exposure, which we attribute to limited erosion during Late Devensian glaciation. If this interpretation is correct, the youngest apparent ages from these surfaces give the most reliable dates for deglaciation, at ca. 14.5–14 ka. This implies that ice persisted at favourable sites through the warm opening phase of the Windermere Interstade. Comparison with radiocarbon-dated evidence from offshore cores suggests net ice margin retreat of ∼74 km eastwards across the adjacent shelf in > 2.3 ± 1.0 ka. The dating evidence is consistent with relatively rapid retreat of calving margins to the coast, then slower withdrawal of ice margins to high ground. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

天大噎记录的天文年代分析     

刘次沅 《时间频率学报》2005,28(2):145-154

古本《竹书纪年》记载有：“周昭王十九年，天大噎，雉兔皆震，丧六师于汉。”这与阴天发生的日全食现象十分相似。事件发生在昭王末年南征荆楚的过程中，地点应当在从周都到洞庭湖以南之间的某处。由前人的研究可知昭王十九年应在公元前1010。940年之间。在充分讨论了天文计算的不确定性后得到这一地区可见的9次大食分日食，其中公元前1009和976年的两次日食可能在洞庭湖以南造成日全食，其他地点也都有相当大的食分。在对夏商周断代工程得到的西周年表作微小调整后，昭王十九年天大睦可以认定为公元前976年5月31日日全食。这对“夏商周断代工程”所定出的昭王前后年代是一个独立的支持。  相似文献   

电子自旋共振法年龄测定研究   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

彭子成  梁任又  金嗣炤  黄培华  全裕才 《地理研究》1988,7(4):78-82

电子自旋共振(ESR)法适用于第四纪样品的年龄测定.本文报道近2年来作者等对鹿角、丽蚌、石筍、黄土、珊瑚和贝壳样品的年龄测定,其结果与地层、TL和¹⁴C年龄相符.预示ESR法将会成为第四纪年代学研究的有力工具.  相似文献   

A magnetostratigraphic comparison between 14C years and varve years during the Late Weichselian,indicating significant differences between the time-scales     

Svante Bjrck  Per Sandgren  Bjrn Holmquist 《第四纪科学杂志》1987,2(2):133-140

A ¹⁴C-dated magnetostratigraphy of absolute declination and inclination between 12500 and 10000 ¹⁴C yr BP was recently developed for southern Sweden. Recently also the Swedish geochronological time-scale, based on c. 11 500 annually deposited clay-varves, was connected with the present. It should therefore be possible to compare the two chronologies with a reliable magnetostratigraphic record in an appropriate clay-varve section. We have found such a site within the Middle Swedish end-moraine zone. Statistical correlations between the two independently dated time-scales suggest that at 10500–10200 ¹⁴Cy r BP the varve chronology exceeds the ¹⁴C chronology by the order of 500-600 varve yr. Other correlations indicate that the difference between the two chronologies was less at 11000 ¹⁴C yr BP, and further correlations between the time-scales at 12000 ¹⁴C yr BP suggest that the difference between the chronologies increased steadily from 12000 to 10000 ¹⁴C yr BP. If these correlations are correct they imply that the ¹⁴C production rate increased steadily during the Late Weichselian.  相似文献   

用天文方法建立商后期甲骨文年代序列的新途径—解析殷历月法   总被引：8，自引：2，他引：6  

李勇 《天文学报》2001,42(2):215-224

利用对具有月龄特征的历谱规律的研究成果，以推定甲骨文的绝对年代，从而提供了建立商后期甲骨文年代序列的新方法，并给出了13版卜辞的例证，通过分析殷历月的结构，得出殷历中“二癸月”和“四癸月”的月首分别为首甲日和首癸日，初步归纳出殷历月法，月首为初三，月长等于逆望月周期，建立固定，且找到建立丑之例，置闰规律未知，已存在年终，年中置闰两种闰法。  相似文献   

Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary cultural and environmental change on the Southern High Plains,USA     

Eileen Johnson  Vance T. Holliday 《第四纪科学杂志》1989,4(2):145-165

Lubbock Lake (Southern High Plains of Texas) contains a cultural, faunal, and floral record within a virtually complete geological record spanning the past 11 100+ years. More than 88 archaeological occurrences have been excavated from five major stratigraphic units. The Paleoindian record (11 500–6500yr BP) begins with Clovis-age occupation (ca. 11 100yr BP) found within fluvial deposits (stratum 1). Subsequent Paleoindian occupations are found in lake and marsh sediments (stratum 2). Archaic occupations (8500-2000yr BP) are contained within aeolian and marsh deposits (strata 3 and 4). Ceramic occupations (2000-500yr BP) are found on a soil developed in stratum 4, in marsh sediments (strata 4 and 5), and in slopewash and aeolian sediments (stratum 5). The Protohistoric (500-300yr BP) and Historic (300-100yr BP) remains are in slopewash, aeolian, and marsh sediments (stratum 5) and associated soils. The Southern High Plains remained a grasslands throughout the last 11 500 years and neither man nor bison abandoned the region. The successive local faunas reflect changing ecosystems under pluvial to arid to more mesic to semiarid conditions. The occupation of Lubbock Lake through time appears to have been by small groups of people for both economic and short-term residential uses. These hunter-gatherer peoples underwent adaptive change brought about by climatic stress and alterations to food resources.  相似文献   

<Superscript>40</Superscript>Ar/<Superscript>39</Superscript>Ar chronology and geochemistry of high-K volcanic rocks in the Mangkang basin,Tibet     

Huihua?Zhang  Huaiyu?He  Jianghai?WangEmail author  Guanghong?Xie 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2005,48(1):1-12

Our two newly obtained high-quality ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar ages suggest that the high-K volcanic rocks of the Lawuxiang Formation in the Mangkang basin, Tibet were formed at 33.5 ± 0.2 Ma. The tracing of elemental and Pb-Sr-Nd isotopic geochemistry indicates that they were derived from an EM2 enriched mantle in continental subduction caused by transpression. Their evidently negative anomalies in HFSEs such as Nb and Ta make clear that there is an input of continental material into the mantle source. The high-K rocks at 33.5 ± 0.2 Ma in the Mangkang basin may temporally, spatially and compositionally compare with the early one of two-pulse high-K rocks in eastern Tibet distinguished by Wang J. H. et al., implying that they were formed in the same tectonic setting.  相似文献   

The aeolian sedimentation record of the Thar desert   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

A. K. Singhvi  Amal Kar 《Journal of Earth System Science》2004,113(3):371-401

A review of the aeolian sedimentary record of the Thar desert is presented. This includes a regional survey of the major dune forms, their genesis and their relationship to climate and other regional landforms. A key aspect of this work is the chronometry of the dunes using luminescence methods. Luminescence dating of sand has enabled quantification of the duration of the phases of sand aggradation and quiescence, time scales of dune migration and the dating of pedogenic carbonates. We demonstrate that the conventional wisdom of synchronicity of dune aggradation with glacial epoch is not true in the context of Thar sands and here only a short durationwindow of opportunity existed for dune aggradation. Luminescence ages further suggest that this window occurred during a transitional climatic regime from glacial to interglacial about 4–10 ka after the glacial epoch. Other inferences included are that:

–	• the aeolian activity in the Thar began over > 150 ka, resolving that Thar is not of anthropogenic origin as suggested previously;
–	• the present spatial extent of the aeolian activity in the Thar is in a contracted stage compared to that in the geological past, which refutes the arguments on its rapid north-eastward expansion;
–	• the current dune migration rates in areas of significant human-induced disturbances are much higher than during the geological past;
–	• the monsoon activity in the Thar varied significantly, from being minimal during the isotopic marine stages 4 and 2 to being close to the present during stage 3;
–	• on shorter time scales the dune activities correlated with the lacustrine records of the region with a phase difference of a few centuries and a periodicity of ∼ 1500 years;
–	• the sand aggradation climate in the southern margin in Gujarat gradually shrank northwards such that in general dunes older than 10 ka are seen in the extreme southern margin and dunes younger than 2ka ages occur mostly in the western part of Rajasthan.

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新疆伊犁尼勒克地区树轮宽度年表特征分析     

张录  袁玉江  魏文寿  陈向军  秦莉  朱西昌 《沙漠与绿洲气象(新疆气象)》2009,3(6):7-12

通过对尼勒克地区3个树轮宽度标准化年表有关参数的对比分析,证明萨克巴依顿年表和唐布拉年表比霍仕布拉克年表包含更多的气候信息。将这3个树轮宽度标准化年表与附近的尼勒克气象站1960--2008年月平均降水组合资料进行相关分析,结果表明：尼勒克3个树轮宽度标准化年表的年轮指数与尼勒克地区上年7—8月的降水呈显著正相关,其中唐布拉年表（TBL）的年轮指数与上年7—8月降水相关最佳,相关系数为0．575,达0．00002的极显著性水平,且二者的正相关具有明确的树木生理学意义。研究还发现,尼勒克3个树轮宽度标准化年表的低频信息含量均多于高频信息的含量,在0．05显著性水平上,普遍存在2～3a的变化准周期,且平均年表存在7个高指数阶段和7个低指数阶段。  相似文献