Proglacial erosion rates and processes in a glacierized catchment in the Swiss Alps          下载免费PDF全文

Ian Delaney  Andreas Bauder  Matthias Huss  Yvo Weidmann 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2018,43(4):765-778

In the Swiss Alps, climatic changes have not only caused glacier retreat, but also likely increased sedimentation downstream of glaciers. This material either originates from below the glacier or from periglacial environments, which are exposed as glaciers retreat, and often consist of easily erodible sediment. Griesgletscher's catchment in the Swiss Alps was examined to quantify erosion in the proglacial area, possible hydrological drivers and contributions of the sub‐ and periglacial sources. Digital elevation models, created from annual aerial photographs, were subtracted to determine annual volume changes in the proglacial area from 1986 to 2014. These data show a strong increase in proglacial erosion in the decade prior to 2012, coincident with increasing proglacial area size. However, examination of the gradient between discharge and sediment evacuation, and modeled sediment transport, could suggest that the proglacial area began to stabilize and sediment supply is limited. The large influx of sediment into the proglacial reservoir, which is roughly 2.5 times greater than the amount of sediment eroded from the proglacial area, demonstrates the importance of subglacial erosion to the catchment's sediment budget. Although far more sediment originates subglacially, erosion rates in the proglacial area are over 50 times greater than the rest of the catchment. In turn, both sub‐ and periglacial processes, in addition to constraining sediment supply, must be considered for assessing future sediment dynamics as glacier area shrinks and proglacial areas grow. © 2017 The Authors. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.  相似文献   

Global distribution of coastal cliffs     

Adam P. Young  Jessica E. Carilli 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2019,44(6):1309-1316

Previous studies have estimated that coastal cliffs exist on about 80% of the global shoreline, but have not been validated on a global scale. This study uses two approaches to capture information on the worldwide existence and erosion of coastal cliffs: a detailed literature survey and imagery search, and a GIS-based global mapping analysis. The literature and imagery review show coastal cliffs exist in 93% of the combined recognized independent coastal states and non-independent coastal regions worldwide (total of 213 geographic units). Additionally, cliff retreat rates have been quantified in at least one location within 33% of independent coastal states and 15% of non-independent regions. The GIS-based mapping used the near-global Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 3 arc second digital elevation model and Arctic Coastal Dynamics Database to obtain near-global backshore coastal elevations at 1 km alongshore intervals comprising about 1,340,000 locations (81% of the world vector shoreline). Backshore coastal elevations were compared with the mapped distribution of European coastal cliffs to produce a model training set, and this relationship was extended globally to map the likelihood of coastal cliff locations. About 21% of the transects (17% of the world vector shoreline) were identified as mangroves and eliminated as potential cliff locations. The results were combined with estimates of cliff percentages for Greenland and Antarctica from the literature, extending the global coverage to estimate cliff occurrence across 89% of the world vector shoreline. The results suggest coastal cliffs likely exist on about 52% of the global shoreline. © 2018 The Authors. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.  相似文献   

The formation and closure of the Big Breach of Sacalin spit associated with extreme shoreline retreat and shoreface erosion     

Florin Iulian Zăinescu  Alfred Vespremeanu-Stroe  Florin Tătui 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2019,44(11):2268-2284

We document a case of exceptionally large natural breaching of a sandy spit (Sacalin spit, Danube Delta) using multiannual to seasonal surveys of topography and bathymetry on successive cross-barrier and shoreface profiles, LiDAR data, satellite imagery, and wind and wave data. The large breach, which quickly reached 3.4 km in May 2014, is attributed to morphological preconditioning of the narrow (50–150 m) barrier, which was susceptible to breaching even during moderate storm conditions. The event switched the barrier's decadal evolution from low cross-shore transport to high cross-shore transport over the barrier, which is an order of magnitude larger than during the non-breach period. Upper shoreface erosion, as indicated by the extensive erosion down to −4 m, indicates that this zone is a significant source for the rebuilding of the barrier. Barrier recovery and widening trigger a negative feedback which limits the back-barrier sediment transfer. As a result, back-barrier deposition decreases whilst the barrier aggradation through overwash becomes more frequent. The Big Breach (TBB) closed naturally in three years. The very high deposition rate of sediment in the breach is a testimony of the high sediment volumes supplied by the longshore transport and the high sediment released through shoreface retreat, and resulted in widening the barrier to a maximum of 1 km. Since the newly-formed barrier shoreline retreated 500 m, this reveals that barrier breaching is an important mechanism which significantly accelerates the landward migration of the barrier system and is a proof of the highly non-linear morphodynamics involved in the barrier island translation. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Resistant rock layers amplify cosmogenically-determined erosion rates     

Andrew Darling  Kelin Whipple  Paul Bierman  Brian Clarke  Arjun Heimsath 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2020,45(2):312-330

Prior numerical modeling work has suggested that incision into sub-horizontal layered stratigraphy with variable erodibility induces non-uniform erosion rates even if base-level fall is steady and sustained. Erosion rates of cliff bands formed in the stronger rocks in a stratigraphic sequence can greatly exceed the rate of base-level fall. Where quartz in downstream sediment is sourced primarily from the stronger, cliff-forming units, erosion rates estimated from concentrations of cosmogenic beryllium-10 (¹⁰Be) in detrital sediment will reflect the locally high erosion rates in retreating cliff bands. We derive theoretical relationships for threshold hillslopes and channels described by the stream-power incision model as a quantitative guide to the potential magnitude of this amplification of ¹⁰Be-derived erosion rates above the rate of base-level fall. Our analyses predict that the degree of erosion rate amplification is a function of bedding dip and either the ratio of rock erodibility in alternating strong and weak layers in the channel network, or the ratio of cliff to intervening-slope gradient on threshold hillslopes. We test our predictions in the cliff-and-bench landscape of the Grand Staircase in southern Utah, USA. We show that detrital cosmogenic erosion rates in this landscape are significantly higher (median 300 m/Ma) than the base-level fall rate (~75 m/Ma) determined from the incision rate of a trunk stream into a ~0.6 Ma basalt flow emplaced along a 16 km reach of the channel. We infer a 3–6-fold range in rock strength from near-surface P-wave velocity measurements. The approximately four-fold difference between the median ¹⁰Be-derived erosion rate and the long-term rate of base-level fall is consistent with our model and the observation that the stronger, cliff-forming lithologies in this landscape are the primary source of quartz in detrital sediments. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Glacier changes from 1975 to 2016 in the Aksu River Basin,Central Tianshan Mountains     

Zhang  Qifei  Chen  Yaning  Li  Zhi  Li  Yupeng  Xiang  Yanyun  Bian  Wei 《地理学报(英文版)》2019,29(6):984-1000

Journal of Geographical Sciences - In this study, we analyzed glacier changes in the Aksu River Basin during the period 1975–2016, based on Landsat MSS/TM/ETM+/OLI imagery analysis and the...  相似文献   

中沙地块南部断裂发育特征及其成因机制          下载免费PDF全文

徐子英  汪俊  高红芳  姚永坚  朱荣伟  唐江浪  聂鑫  孙美静 《中国地质》2020,47(5):1438-1446

利用最新多道地震剖面资料,结合重力、磁力、地形等地球物理资料,揭示了中沙地块南部断裂空间展布特征、断裂发育时期、断裂内部构造形变特征及深部地壳结构,并基于认识探讨了断裂的发育机制。研究结果认为,中沙地块南部陆缘构造属性为非火山型被动大陆边缘：地壳性质从西北向东南由减薄陆壳向洋陆过渡壳再向正常洋壳发育变化;Moho面埋深从中沙地块下方的26 km快速抬升到海盆的10~12 km;从中沙地块陡坡至其前缘海域的重力异常明显负异常区为洋陆过渡带,在重力由高值负异常上升到海盆的低值正、负异常的边界为洋陆边界。中沙地块南部发育有4组阶梯状向海倾的深大正断裂,主要发育时期为晚渐新世到中中新世。断裂早期发育与南海东部次海盆近NS向扩张有关,后期遭受挤压变形、与菲律宾海板块向南海的NWW向仰冲有关。该研究有助于更好认识南海海盆的扩张历史和南海被动大陆边缘的类型。  相似文献   

闽南-台湾浅滩渔场蓝圆鲹资源的评估   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

徐旭才  丘书院  卢振彬  戴泉水  颜尤明 《海洋与湖沼》1992,23(5):511-516

以1971—1987年的蓝圆鲹叉长组成资料,应用体长股分析法评估了闽南-台湾浅滩渔场蓝圆鲹的资源。结果表明,1971—1980年的现存资源数量和生物量分别为45292×10~5尾和9.49×10~4t,1981—1987年分别为63908×10~5尾和13.51×10~4t;1971—1980年和1981—1987年的瞬时捕捞死亡率分别为0.6347和0.4859。通过Beverton-Holt模式估算出蓝圆鲹目前的持续产量为9.58×10~4t,最佳最小捕捞叉长为135mm。  相似文献   

闽南-台湾浅滩表层沉积物中底栖有孔虫分布及其环境特征     

方惠瑛 《热带海洋学报》1992,(2)

本文分析了闽南-台湾浅滩表层沉积物样品中的底栖有孔虫计有132属、328种。根据种类组成及分布特征,可将海区划分为6个动物群区,每个动物群区各有自己的环境特点。文中分析了动物群种类组成特征与其所赋存的环境之间的关系,并讨论了浅滩西南303站底栖有孔虫的分布与上升流的关系。  相似文献   

闽南-台湾浅滩渔场蓝圆鲹和鲐鱼群聚空间分布的研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

方水美  杨圣云 《台湾海峡》2006,25(3):374-380

根据闽南-台湾浅滩渔场灯光围网信息船1990～2002年的渔捞记录，研究该渔场蓝圆鲹和鲐鱼群聚空间分布．结果表明，中上层鱼类蓝圆鲹和鲐鱼年间数量变动具有时间同步的特征，年均网次产量显著相关．蓝圆鲹与鲐鱼群聚区分布差异表现在：蓝圆鲹分布的海区水深较鲐鱼浅，蓝圆鲹和鲐鱼分布渔区的水深，春季分别为40～660m和40～70m，夏季分别为30～50m和30～60m，秋、冬季分别为30～60m和40～60m；鲐鱼的群聚区分布较偏北、偏向台湾岛西岸，蓝圆鲹的群聚区分布较偏南、偏向台湾海峡的中心区域；蓝圆鲹与鲐鱼群聚区的时空隔离、彼此取代比较明显．蓝圆鲹与鲐鱼的群聚区存在一定的重叠，与其种间对食物的竞争有关．两鱼种所出现两种适应性趋向。增加了它们在同一生境中长期共存的可能性．  相似文献   

Formalising an inversion methodology for reconstructing ice‐sheet retreat patterns from meltwater channels: application to the British Ice Sheet     

Sarah L. Greenwood  Chris D. Clark  Anna L. C. Hughes 《第四纪科学杂志》2007,22(6):637-645

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