青海柴达木盆地北缘全吉群内部存在区域性不整合     

王超  李猛  李荣社  彭岩  张吉衡  张海军  王健 《地质通报》2015,34(203):364-373

通过野外考察和前人资料分析发现,柴达木盆地北缘全吉群红藻山组之上存在一个区域性的不整合,其中发育铁质风化壳、沉积间断、地层的缺失、侵蚀作用特征。不整合面上、下地层存在古生物组合、沉积环境的突变。界面以下为碳酸盐台地沉积,界面之上代表了冰水沉积到海相潮上—潮间带沉积,上覆黑土坡组—红铁沟组—皱节山组,依次沿着不整合面向上超覆,反映了不整合发育之后的又一次海进过程。该不整合界面可能代表了新元古代晚期该地区裂谷盆地的伸展阶段的构造响应。该区域性不整合的发现,改变了以往传统的对全吉群内部整合关系的认识,说明全吉群需要解体。该不整合可能发生于成冰纪—埃迪卡拉纪。该时期的不整合面上、下生物面貌和沉积环境的变化或突变,可能与新元古代晚期罗迪尼亚超大陆的裂解和全球雪球事件相关。  相似文献   

青藏高原第四纪冰川作用及其气候响应的讨论     

欧先交  周尚哲  赖忠平  曾兰华 《第四纪研究》2015,35(1)

关于青藏高原和周边山地第四纪冰川作用及其气候响应存在不同观点.一些学者认为老冰期主要发生在氧同位素奇数阶段;MIS 3和早全新世存在规模较大的冰川前进;南亚季风对青藏高原冰川作用起主导作用(水汽驱动).另一些学者则认为青藏高原冰川作用主要对应于氧同位素偶数阶段;冰川发育是构造隆升-冰期气候耦合的产物(低温驱动).本文基于现有的陆地生成宇宙核素(TCN)和光释光(OSL)等年代结果总结了不同时间尺度和不同类型冰川波动与气候变化历史的对比,并对几个关键的争议问题做了讨论.结果表明,在不同类型冰川区和不同时间尺度下,冰川作用在湿润期和低温期都有可能发生,但总体上主要与低温相对应.青藏高原冰川对气温的响应似乎更为敏感.MIS 3冰进规模较大可能是降水较多结合冷期(或冷事件)降温所致,显示了印度季风降水和气温波动对高原冰川的共同作用.早全新世冰进也与印度季风和北半球冷事件关系密切.目前的测年数据还没有推翻“冰期发生在氧同位素偶数阶段”这种传统认识.当前急需更多精确的数字定年工作,以不断更新对青藏高原冰期时代及其气候响应机制的了解.  相似文献   

Cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al Chronology of the Last Glaciation of the Palaeo-Daocheng Ice Cap, Southeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau     

ZHANG Zhigang  WANG Jian  XU Xiaobin  BAI Shibiao  CHANG ZhiYang 《《地质学报》英文版》2015,89(2):575-584

The glacial landforms of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau(QTP) provide a unique opportunity to research hemispheric and global environmental changes. In this study,we focus on the glacial history of the palaeo-Daocheng Ice Cap(p-DIC) in the southeastern QTP during the last glacial cycle. Based on field investigations,morphostratigraphy,and surface exposure dating of roche moutonnée,polished surface and moraine debris through the terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides(TCN) 10 Be and 26 Al. We identify glacial deposits of the last deglaciation,with minimum ages of 14.9±1.3–18.7±1.7 ka,the Last Glacial Maximum(LGM) of 24.7±2.2 ka,and the early part of the last glacial period(marine oxygen isotope stage(MIS) 3) of 37.1±3.4–45.2±3.9 ka. Our results show that in this region,the extent of the glacial advance during MIS 3 was larger than that during the traditional LGM(MIS 2). These ages are consistent with prior chronologies,and the 10 Be age is consistent with the 26 Al age for the same sample. Thus,these data provide reliable constraints on climate change in the QTP,during the last glaciation.  相似文献   

柴达木盆地大浪滩地区表层芒硝的形成时代及环境意义     

马妮娜  郑绵平  马志邦 《地质学报》2011,85(3):433-444

通过对柴达木盆地大浪滩地区的两次实地勘查,发现小梁山多处可见芒硝—碳酸盐粘土互层的露头,选取了完整沉积的D26剖面进行研究。比较盐湖学的研究表明,芒硝是典型的冷相盐类矿物;而碳酸盐粘土和石膏则反映了相对温暖潮湿和温暖的环境。本文通过对芒硝—碳酸盐粘土互层的矿物鉴定,石膏的铀系不平衡法定年,以及结合碳酸盐粘土的碳氧同位素分析,首次揭示出大浪滩地区在倒数第二次冰期（MIS 6阶段）前后经历了偏暖潮湿期（＞195.1 ka BP）→寒冷干旱期（195.1 ~ 169.9 ka BP）→偏暖湿期（169.9 ka BP ka BP）→冷暖交替时期（169.9 ka BP ~ 118 ka BP）→偏暖湿期（118 ka BP）的气候演变序列。经与黄土剖面,深海氧同位素和区域研究资料的对比表明,自中晚更新世以来,大浪滩地区不仅受到区域地质活动的影响,也与全球的气候变化同步响应。  相似文献   

Chronology of latest Pleistocene mountain glaciation in the western Wasatch Mountains, Utah, U.S.A.     

Benjamin J.C. Laabs  David W. Marchetti  Jeffrey S. Munroe  Kurt A. Refsnider  John C. Gosse  Elliott W. Lips  Richard A. Becker  David M. Mickelson  Brad S. Singer 《Quaternary Research》2011,76(2):272-284

Understanding the timing of mountain glacier and paleolake expansion and retraction in the Great Basin region of the western United States has important implications for regional-scale climate change during the last Pleistocene glaciation. The relative timing of mountain glacier maxima and the well-studied Lake Bonneville highstand has been unclear, however, owing to poor chronological limits on glacial deposits. Here, this problem is addressed by applying terrestrial cosmogenic ¹⁰Be exposure dating to a classic set of terminal moraines in Little Cottonwood and American Fork Canyons in the western Wasatch Mountains. The exposure ages indicate that the main phase of deglaciation began at 15.7 ± 1.3 ka in both canyons. This update to the glacial chronology of the western Wasatch Mountains can be reconciled with previous stratigraphic observations of glacial and paleolake deposits in this area, and indicates that the start of deglaciation occurred during or at the end of the Lake Bonneville hydrologic maximum. The glacial chronology reported here is consistent with the growing body of data suggesting that mountain glaciers in the western U.S. began retreating as many as 4 ka after the start of northern hemisphere deglaciation (at ca. 19 ka).  相似文献   

Stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon compositions in the Neoproterozoic of South Gabon (Schisto-Calcaire Subgroup, Nyanga Basin): Are cap carbonates and lithoherms recording a particular destabilization event after the Marinoan glaciation?     

Alain Prat  Jean-Pierre Prian  Denis Thiblemont  Rolf Mabicka Obame  Franck Delpomdor 《Journal of African Earth Sciences》2011,60(4):273

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Late Neoarchaean-Palaeoproterozoic supracrustal basin-fills of the Kaapvaal craton: Relevance of the supercontinent cycle, the "Great Oxidation Event" and "Snowball Earth"?     

P.G. Eriksson  N. LenhardtD.T. Wright  R. MazumderA.J. Bumby 《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2011,28(8):1385-1401

The application of the onset of supercontinentality, the “Great Oxidation Event” (GOE) and the first global scale glaciation in the Neoarchaean-Palaeoproterozoic as panacea-like events providing a framework or even chronological piercing points in Earth’s history at this time, is questioned. There is no solid evidence that the Kaapvaal craton was part of a larger amalgamation at this time, and its glacigenic record is dominated by deposits supporting the operation of an active hydrological cycle in parallel with glaciation, thereby arguing against the “Snowball Earth Hypothesis”. While the Palaeoproterozoic geological record of Kaapvaal does broadly support the GOE, this postulate itself is being questioned on the basis of isotopic data used as oxygen-proxies, and sedimentological data from extant river systems on the craton argue for a prolongation of the greenhouse palaeo-atmosphere (possibly in parallel with a relative elevation of oxygen levels) which presumably preceded the GOE. The possibility that these widespread events may have been diachronous at the global scale is debated.  相似文献   

The North Taymyr ice-marginal zone, Arctic Siberia—a preliminary overview and dating     

Helena Alexanderson  Christian Hjort  Per Mller  Oleg Antonov  Maksim Pavlov 《Global and Planetary Change》2001,31(1-4)

The North Taymyr ice-marginal zone (NTZ) is a complex of glacial, glaciofluvial and glaciolacustrine deposits, laid down on the northwestern Taymyr Peninsula in northernmost Siberia, along the front of ice sheets primarily originating on the Kara Sea shelf. It was originally recognised from satellite radar images by Russian scientists; however, before the present study, it had not been investigated in any detail. The ice sheets have mainly inundated Taymyr from the northwest, and the NTZ can be followed for 700–750 km between 75°N and 77°N, mostly 80–100 km inland from the present Kara Sea coast.The ice-marginal zone is best developed in its central parts, ca. 100 km on each side of the Lower Taymyr River, and has there been studied by us in four areas. In two of these, the ice sheet ended on land, whereas in the two others, it mainly terminated into ice-dammed lakes. The base of the NTZ is a series of up to 100-m-high and 2-km-wide ridges, usually consisting of redeposited marine silts. These ridges are still to a large extent ice-cored; however, the present active layer rarely penetrates to the ice surface. Upon these main ridges, smaller ridges of till and glaciofluvial material are superimposed. Related to these are deltas corresponding to two generations of ice-dammed lakes, with shore levels at 120–140 m and ca. 80 m a.s.l. These glacial lakes drained southwards, opposite to the present-day pattern, via the Taymyr River valley into the Taymyr Lake basin and, from there, most probably westwards to the southern Kara Sea shelf.The basal parts of the NTZ have not been dated; however, OSL dates of glaciolacustrine deltas indicate an Early–Middle Weichselian age for at least the superimposed ridges. The youngest parts of the NTZ are derived from a thin ice sheet (less than 300 m thick near the present coast) inundating the lowlands adjacent to the lower reaches of the Taymyr River. The glacial ice from this youngest advance is buried under only ca. 0.5 m of melt-out till and is exposed by hundreds of shallow slides. This final glaciation is predated by glacially redeposited marine shells aged ca. 20,000 BP (¹⁴C) and postdated by terrestrial plant material from ca. 11,775 and 9500 BP (¹⁴C)–giving it a last global glacial maximum (LGM; Late Weichselian) age.  相似文献   

Cosmogenic radionuclide dating of glacial landforms in the Lahul Himalaya,northern India: defining the timing of Late Quaternary glaciation     

Lewis A. Owen  Lyn Gualtieri  Robert C. Finkel  Marc W. Caffee  Doug I. Benn  Milap C. Sharma 《第四纪科学杂志》2001,16(6):555-563

The timing of glaciation in the Lahul Himalaya of northern India was ascertained using the concentrations of cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al from boulders on moraines and drumlins, and from glacially polished bedrock surfaces. Five glacial stages were identified: Sonapani I and II, Kulti, Batal and Chandra. Of these, cosmogenic exposure ages were obtained on samples representative of the Batal and Kulti glacial cycles. Stratigraphical relationships indicate that the Sonapani I and II are younger. No age was obtained for the Chandra glacial advance. Batal Glacial Stage deposits are found throughout the valley, indicating the presence of an extensive valley glacial system. During the Kulti Stage, glaciers advanced ca. 10 km beyond their current positions. Moraines produced during the Batal Stage, ca. 12–15.5 ka, are coeval with the Northern Hemisphere Late‐glacial Interstadial (Bølling/Allerød). Deglaciation of the Batal Glacial Stage was completed by ca. 12 ka and was followed by the Kulti Glacial Stage during the early Holocene, at ca. 10–11.4 ka. On millennial time‐scales, glacier oscillations in the Lahul Himalaya apparently reflect periods of positive mass‐balance coincident with times of increased insolation. During these periods the South Asian summer monsoon strengthened and/or extended its influence further north and west, thereby enhancing high‐altitude summer snowfall. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Glaciers,rock avalanches and the ‘buzzsaw’ in cirque development: Why mountain cirques are of mainly glacial origin     

Ian S. Evans 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2021,46(1):24-46

It has been proposed that most cirques are source-area depressions of large, deep-seated rock-slope failures. Yet the close relation between cirques and climate is convincing evidence of the dominance of glacial erosion, rather than rock-slope failure, in mountain cirque development and distribution. Cirque floor altitudes have a lower limit that varies with snowfall by 1000 m or more between windward and leeward sides of mountain systems. Glaciation levels and equilibrium line altitudes implied by cirques vary in parallel with those for modern glaciers. Cirques are often found mainly on the poleward or leeward slopes of individual mountain ranges, as are modern small glaciers (because of solar radiation and wind effects on ablation and accumulation). Most rock-slope failures (RSFs: rock slides, rock avalanches and gravitational deformations) do not involve the deep-seated rotational movement that would produce a cirque form. Although some deep-seated RSFs with arcuate head scars may be confused with cirques, identification as a glacial cirque is more confident as the floor is longer, wider and more gently sloping. Some scars from major RSFs may resemble poor or moderately developed cirques, but tend to have steeper floors, to be more scattered and closely related to geology, whereas glacial cirques develop on all rock types. Deep-seated RSFs high on slopes can be associated with seismic shaking, but cirques develop without relation to seismicity. Degree of cirque development can be related to duration of exposure to glaciation. Often RSFs are found adjacent to cirques, or in glacial transfluences; only a proportion are well situated to develop into glacial cirques. Valley-head cirques are continued down-valley by glacial troughs. The ‘overdeepening’ (rock basins with reversed slopes) found in a large minority of cirques is not due to rock avalanching, fluvial or periglacial erosion. The RSF proposal should therefore be rejected in favour of the traditional glacial explanation, without any nivation stage being necessary. Rock-slope failure is one of several possible ways of initiating hollows for glacier accumulation, as well as an ancillary process of cirque extension or widening through collapse of glacially oversteepened slopes. Headward extension of adjacent cirques on a ridge leads to displacement of the divide, sometimes by 2 km or more, lowering ridge and summit altitudes and producing the ‘glacial buzzsaw’ effect. Where a relatively lower snowline has led to cirque erosion on all sides of a mountain, cirque intersection lowers summits further. The buzzsaw hypothesis is not applicable, however, where remnants of a preglacial summit surface survive. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献