Isotopic evidence for temporal variation in proportion of seasonal precipitation since the last glacial time in the inland Pacific Northwest of the USA     

Akinori Takeuchi  Angela J. Goodwin  Bryan G. Moravec  Peter B. Larson  C. Kent Keller 《Quaternary Research》2009,72(2):198-206

Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns determine the quantity and seasonality of precipitation, the major source of water in most terrestrial ecosystems. Oxygen isotope (δ¹⁸O) dynamics of the present-day hydrologic system in the Palouse region of the northwestern U.S.A. indicate a seasonal correlation between the δ¹⁸O values of precipitation and temperature, but no seasonal trends of δ¹⁸O records in soil water and shallow groundwater. Their isotope values are close to those of winter precipitation because the Palouse receives  75% of its precipitation during winter. Palouse Loess deposits contain late Pleistocene pedogenic carbonate having ca. 2 to 3‰ higher δ¹⁸O values and up to 5‰ higher carbon isotope (δ¹³C) values than Holocene and modern carbonates. The late Pleistocene δ¹⁸O values are best explained by a decrease in isotopically light winter precipitation relative to the modern winter-dominated infiltration. The δ¹³C values are attributed to a proportional increase of atmospheric CO₂ in soil CO₂ due to a decrease in soil respiration rate and ¹³C discrimination in plants under much drier paleoclimate conditions than today. The regional climate difference was likely related to anticyclonic circulation over the Pleistocene Laurentide and Ice Sheet.  相似文献   

Seasonality in the North Sea during the Allerød and Late Medieval Climate Optimum using bivalve sclerochronology     

Bernd R. Schöne  Jens Fiebig 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2009,98(1):83-98

Seasonal temperature patterns may have changed through time in response to current global warming. However, the temporal resolution of available proxy records is not sufficient to quantify paleotemperature seasonality prior to anthropogenic forcing of the climate. In the present study, we reconstructed seasonal and inter-annual temperature patterns of the North Sea during the last 140 years, the Allerød Interglacial and the Late Medieval Climate Optimum using sclerochronological and δ¹⁸O_aragonite data from bivalve shells, Arctica islandica. On average, the climate during 1278–1353 AD was ca. 1.1°C colder and seasonality was ca. 60% less than today. During the Allerød, long-term temperatures remained about 3.2°C below present values, and absolute summer and winter anomalies were ca. ?4 and ?2.7°C, respectively. However, seasonality was statistically indistinguishable from today. Long-term average temperatures compare well with existing data for the Late Medieval and Allerød, but detailed information on seasonality during the studied time intervals has never been presented before. Our data also demonstrated that annual instrumental and δ¹⁸O_aragonite-derived temperatures did not always match. This difference is explained by (1) NAO-driven salinity changes, which influence the temperature estimation from δ¹⁸O_aragonite and (2) food-driven changes in growth rates; portions of the shell that formed more rapidly are overrepresented in carbonate samples. Our study indicated that individual bivalve shells can open discrete, near-century long, ultra-high-resolution windows into the climate past. Such information can be vital for testing and verifying numerical climate models.  相似文献   

Research Progress on Electrical Properties and Conductivity Measurement Technology of Ice Core     

Ma Tianming  Xie Zhouqing  Li Yuansheng 《地球科学进展》2016,31(2):161-170

Ice core is an important object of the global climate change research, and can extract paleoclimate information by physical and chemical methods. As one of the major physical analysis technology, conductivity measurement technology mainly contains two methods and has been applied to many drilling project. The technology reflects the ice core electrical properties influenced by factors such as temperature, pressure, impurities and changes, and the cause of these changes can be explained from the aspects of macroscopic and microscopic. What obtained from measurement can be used to the research of dating, volcanic events, accumulation rate, biomass burning, ion concentration recovery, which systematically help us to understand the quaternary evolution of Antarctic climate since late pleistocene. This paper summarized in detail the main research achievements on electrical properties and dielectric measurement technology of ice core, and also discussed the prospect of the technology in China deep ice core project further.  相似文献   

Recent Progress and Perspectives in Paleoenvironmental and Paleoclimatic Research Based on Chironomidae (Diptera)     

Hu Yu  Chen Jianhui  Wang Haipeng  Lü  Feiya  Wei Guoying 《地球科学进展》2016,31(8):870-884

Chironomidae (Diptera) becomes a rapid developing proxy in the international paleolimnology in the recent 20 years due to its short life cycle, strong ability to move and sensitive response to environmental change. The main progress of paleolimnological research based on chironomid can be summarized as the following four aspects: ①The establishment of a large number of sample training sets and transfer functions, as well as the comparison and integration of regional databases; ②More attention on the role of internal lacustrine factors in controlling of the chironomid population; ③Attention on finer time scales since the modern interglacial period; ④Improvement of the experimental technology and numerical methods, and constant development of new indicators. The domestic related research started late, but databases in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze river, the Tibetan Plateau, the Yunnan Plateau and the region of inner Mongolia and Xinjiang has been established so far, and also some researches on the internal lacustrine factors on chironomid population has been carried out; paleoenvironmental reconstruction is mainly concentrated in the northwest arid areas and the Yunnan Plateau, and the research in eastern region is primarily focused on reflecting the effects of recent state of human activities on the lakes. Paleoenvironment and paleoclimate researches based on chironomid urgently need to ①Carry out more individual ecology work to accurately understand the relationship between the species and environmental factors, combined with the investigation of a broader area; ②Further improve the efficiency of experiments by new technology to enhance the resolution of identification; ③Pay attention to the application of the advanced quantitative ecology methods and the novel tools such as isotopic analysis; ④Attach great importance to the role of chironomid in the definition of lake natural state and the ecological restoration.  相似文献   

Provenance of Clay Minerals in the Amami Sankaku Basin and Their Paleoclimate Implications Since Late Pleistocene     

Liu Huahua  Jiang Fuqing  Zhou Ye  Li Anchun 《地球科学进展》2016,31(3):286-297

We analyzed the clay mineral assemblages, content and mineralogical characteristics of Hole U1438A sediment recovered from Amami Sankaku Basin during International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) expedition 351. The results show that the clay minerals are mainly composed of illite (average 57%), smectite (average 26%), chlorite (average 14%) and minor kaolinite(average 3%). The crystallinity of illite in all samples are good (<0.4 Δ° 2θ), and the chemical indexes of illite in all samples are low (<0.4). Both indicate that illite in Hole U1438A formed in cold and dry climate. By comparing clay mineral assemblages of hole U1438A and the potential sediment sources, we suggest that smectite be mainly derived from the volcanic materials around Amami Sankaku Basin. Illite, chlorite and kaolinite are mainly derived from the Asian dust. The ratios of (illite+chlorite)/smectite show a phased increase over the last 350 ka, which is consistent with the cold and drying trend of the Asian continent since late Pleistocene. The high ratios of (illite+chlorite)/smectite and (illite+chlorite)/kaolinite during glacial period indicate that much more Asian dust was input into the Amami Sankaku Basin, which are responded to the aridity of Asian continent and strengthened east Asian Monsoon during glacial period.  相似文献   

关于辽西北票组地质时代及区域对比的再讨论     

张路锁  谢明忠  张树胜  张新生  尚洪田  李绪慧  吴瑞芳 《地质论评》2016,62(6):1392-1402

北票组是辽西侏罗纪主要含煤地层,大部分学者从植物化石角度论述其时代为早侏罗世,区域上与窑坡组、永定庄组、富县组、三工河组对比。本文从地层层序、岩性、构造演化、古气候演化等角度对北票组的地质时代和区域对比进行了讨论,认为该组为印支期后地壳伸展阶段早侏罗世早—中期兴隆沟组火山喷发之后和中侏罗世中晚期海房沟组、蓝旗组燕山期火山活动之前的含煤盆地沉积产物。前者火山活动在冀北、京西形成南大岭组,在北疆三工河组局部形成火山岩夹层;后者火山活动在冀北、京西形成九龙山组、髫髻山组,晋北形成云岗组、天池河组,北疆形成头屯河组。北票组底部杂色地层化石稀少,有机质含量低,气候应相对干热,北票组(杂色地层以上部分)、海房沟组、蓝旗组植物化石和孢粉证明古气候由温湿向干热逐渐演化,而该特征和中国北方以至全球早侏罗世晚期干热、中侏罗世从早期到晚期由温湿向干热的演化规律—致。从而,北票组底部杂色地层属于早侏罗世晚期并和三工河组、富县组、永定庄组、阳眷组、窑坡组底部对比;北票组杂色地层以上部分属于中侏罗世早期,与西山窑组、延安组、大同组、下花园组、窑坡组(K1砂岩以上部分)对比。  相似文献   

柴达木盆地昆特依盐湖磁化率特征及古气候意义          下载免费PDF全文

曾方明  向树元 《盐湖研究》2016,24(1)

昆特依盐湖是柴达木盆地盐湖演化和古气候研究的重要对象。前人对昆特依盐湖钻孔的年代学和地球化学组成特征开展过一些研究,但由于采样间距大,限制了对成盐演化过程的深入理解。而且,目前关于昆特依盐湖磁化率特征的研究未见报道。本文对昆特依盐湖ZK1402钻孔(35 m深)的₁₄C年代和磁化率进行了初步研究。结果表明：(1)钻孔由含盐碎屑层和盐层的互层所组成。钻孔的低频磁化率和高频磁化率的变化极为相似。盐层的低频磁化率值低,含盐碎屑层的低频磁化率值高。低频磁化率清晰地记录到古盐湖经历了四次显著的成盐期。(2)低频磁化率和频率磁化率(百分比形式)呈负相关关系。(3)钻孔24.8 m深处的加速器质谱(AMS)₁₄C校正年代为31780 ± 442 cal a BP,33.0 m深处的年代(19259 ± 207 cal a BP)出现倒转,表明钻孔下部的₁₄C年龄可能受到现代碳污染而接近饱和。  相似文献   

分形噪声、多维分形滤波及地球物理测井曲线处理应用   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1  

李庆谋  刘少华 《地球物理学进展》2000,15(4):110-116

白噪声、布郎运动以及其它满足在双对数坐标中呈一直线和信号具分形结构、自相似性或尺度无关性。地球物理信号通常表现为多个这种信号的叠加,表面为多维分形特征,研究、模拟在双对数坐标中成一直线的信号以及如何将多维分形中多个这种信号剖分出来,对于理解相应的地质、地球物理成因机制有重要意义。通过对两口井的地球物理测井曲线处理,可以初步看出,在选定的物理测井曲线中,其具多维分形特征,不同的沉积过程相互叠架在原始测井曲线中,用滤波方法分析分解信号,可以了解不同沉积作用特征并进一步分析可能的环境变化控制机制。开发的图形界面程序使得这一过程极为容易。  相似文献   

Vegetation response to rapid climate change in central europe during the past 140,000 yr based on evidence from the Füramoos pollen record     

Ulrich C Müller  J.örg ProssErhard Bibus 《Quaternary Research》2003,59(2):235-245

The response of Central European vegetation to rapid climate change during the late Quaternary period (Eemian to Holocene) is assessed by data from the new pollen record of Füramoos, southwestern Germany. This record represents the longest late Quaternary pollen record north of the Alps as currently known. Its high degree of completeness allows detailed correlations with Greenland ice cores and sea-surface temperature records from the North Atlantic. Our data show that if climate deteriorations were not long or severe enough to extirpate refugia of arboreal taxa north of the Alps such as during marine oxygen isotope stage (MIS) 5 (i.e., Würm Stadial A, Stadial B, and Stadial C), reforestation with the onset of warmer conditions in Central Europe occurred on a centennial scale. If arboreal taxa became completely extinct north of the Alps such as during MIS 4 (i.e., Würm Stadial D), several thousand years were necessary for the reimmigration from refugia situated in regions south of the Alps. Thus, Dansgaard-Oeschger interstades (DOIS) 24 to 20 and 15 to 11 are expressed in Central European pollen records, whereas DOIS 19 to 16 are not recorded due to migration lags.  相似文献   

A 10,000-year high-resolution diatom record from Pilkington Bay, Lake Victoria, East Africa     

J.Curt Stager  Brian F CummingL.David Meeker 《Quaternary Research》2003,59(2):172-181

A new diatom record from Lake Victoria’s Pilkington Bay, subsampled at 21- to 25-year intervals and supported by 20 AMS dates, reveals a ∼10,000 calendar year environmental history that is supported by published diatom and pollen data from two nearby sites. With their chronologies adjusted here to account for newly documented ancient carbon effects in the lake, these three records provide a coherent, finely resolved reconstruction of Holocene climate change in equatorial East Africa. After an insolation-induced rainfall maximum ca. 8800-8300 cal yr B.P., precipitation became more seasonal and decreased abruptly ca. 8200 and 5700 yr B.P. in apparent association with northern deglaciation events. Century-scale rainfall increases occurred ca. 8500, 7000, 5800, and 4000 yr B.P. Conditions after 2700 yr B.P. were generally similar to those of today, but major droughts occurred ca. 1200-600 yr B.P. during Europe’s Medieval Warm Period.  相似文献