Neotropical vegetation response to rapid climate changes during the last glacial period: Palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin     

Catalina González  Lydie M. Dupont 《Quaternary Research》2008,69(2):217-230

We present new palynological information from the anoxic Cariaco Basin, off Venezuela, that provides insight into the response of northernmost South American vegetation to rapid climate changes between 68 and 28 ka, specifically during North Atlantic Heinrich events (HEs) and Dansgaard/Oeschger cycles. We defined three different vegetation modes: (1) an interstadial mode characterized by the highest pollen concentration and the maximum extension of semi-deciduous and evergreen forests; (2) a stadial mode characterized by increases of salt marshes, herbs, and montane forests; and (3) a Heinrich event mode characterized by the lowest pollen concentrations, abrupt increases of salt marshes, and decreased forest abundance. Similarly, indices of C4/C3 plants show increases during stadials with clear peaks during the onset of HEs, though grasslands did not become dominant during these periods. We alternatively propose that these expansions of C4 plants are associated with the expansion of coastal salt marshes. Our vegetation record suggests the prevalence of humid conditions during interstadials, dry and cold conditions during stadials, and dry and cold conditions together with changes in sea level during HEs. This new palynological evidence supports previous interpretations that main environmental changes in northernmost South America were driven by latitudinal displacements of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and sea-level changes.  相似文献   

江苏中部潮滩沉积的季节性判别   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

王建  肖家仪  柏春广  朱小华  汪阳  孙爱梅 《海洋地质与第四纪地质》2000,20(1):31-34

对江苏中部潮滩1年中12个月的沉积样品的孢粉分析结果表明,潮滩沉积存在明显的季节性孢粉特征,可以利用孢粉指标来指示与判别潮滩沉积的季节性.  相似文献   

六盘山地区寺口子剖面早白垩世晚期的孢粉组合及其环境意义   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

张明震  戴霜  张永全  苗运法  刘俊伟  黄永波  赵杰  刘学 《干旱区地理》2012,35(1):99-108

 研究白垩纪植物演替与气候变化对认识现今生态环境形成过程与演变具有重要意义。基于在我国六盘山地区下白垩统六盘山群中发现的45 属孢粉化石,探讨了孢粉组合、古生态与古气候变化特征。孢粉组合以裸子植物为主,蕨类植物次之,前者以松柏纲松杉目占优势,以掌鳞杉(Cheirolepidiaceae)科最为繁盛,尼藤目麻黄科(Ephedraceae)和苏铁目或银杏目占有很大比例;后者以真蕨目包括海金沙科(Lygodiaceae)、莎草蕨科(Schizaeaceae)为主。表明当时植物具有比较明显的多样性,既有生长于远处高山的松杉类高大植物,又有近湖低山及湖岸一带的掌鳞杉科及蕨类植物,湖泊水体中生长着淡水藻类。孢粉植物群的这种特征揭示出该地区在早白垩世晚期气候炎热干燥,并且可以划分为116~112 Ma的气温相对较低和112~103 Ma的气温波动升高两个阶段,这种变化与全球古气候的变化趋势一致,说明寺口子剖面孢粉记录的气候变化与对全球气候变化是响应的。  相似文献   

Geology,stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis-bearing Quaternary palaeolake(s) of Gorzów Wielkopolski (NW Poland,Central Europe)     

Artur Sobczyk  Ryszard K. Borówka  Janusz Badura  Renata Stachowicz-Rybka  Julita Tomkowiak  Anna Hrynowiecka  Joanna Sławińska  Michał Tomczak  Mateusz Pitura  Mariusz Lamentowicz  Piotr Kołaczek  Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek  Dariusz Tarnawski  Marcin Kadej  Piotr Moska  Marek Krąpiec  Krzysztof Stachowicz  Bartosz Bieniek  Krzysztof Siedlik  Małgorzata Bąk  Jan van der Made  Adam Kotowski  Krzysztof Stefaniak 《第四纪科学杂志》2020,35(4):539-558

The sedimentary succession exposed in the Gorzów Wielkopolski area includes Eemian Interglacial (MIS 5e) or Early Weichselian (MIS 5d–e) deposits. The sedimentary sequence has been the object of intense interdisciplinary study, which has resulted in the identification of at least two palaeolake horizons. Both yielded fossil remains of large mammals, alongside pollen and plant macrofossils. All these proxies have been used to reconstruct the environmental conditions prevailing at the time of deposition, as well as to define the geological context and the biochronological position of the fauna. Optically stimulated luminescence dating of the glaciofluvial layers of the GS3 succession to 123.6 ± 10.1 (below the lower palaeolake) and 72.0 ± 5.2 ka (above the upper palaeolake) indicate that the site formed during the Middle–Late Pleistocene (MIS 6 – MIS 5). Radiocarbon-dating of the lacustrine organic matter revealed a tight cluster of Middle Pleniglacial Period (MIS 3) ages in the range of ~41–32 ka cal bp (Hengelo – Denekamp Interstadials). Holocene organic layers have also been found, with ¹⁴C ages within a range of 4330–4280 cal bp (Neolithic). Pollen and plant macrofossil records, together with sedimentological and geochemical data, confirm the dating to the Eemian Interglacial.  相似文献   

Identifying the pollen of an extinct spruce species in the Late Quaternary sediments of the Tunica Hills region,south‐eastern United States          下载免费PDF全文

L. MANDER  J. RODRIGUEZ  P. G. MUELLER  S. T. JACKSON  S. W. PUNYASENA 《第四纪科学杂志》2014,29(7):711-721

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Middle and Late Permian palynoflora in Tianshan Township,southeast of Bogda Mountain,Xinjiang, China     

Muhammad I.Asghar  ZHANG Shuqin  ZHANG Minda  SHI Xiao  SUN Yuewu 《世界地质(英文版)》2021,24(4):198-212

The Permian is one of the most important periods during which the vegetative earth witnessed the transition from icehouse to greenhouse climate and the global environment changes. Organisms on the planet en-countered great challenge and the demise of swamp caused the extinction of arborescent lycopods and the rising of Mesophytic plants accomplished the floral transition from the Paleophytic to Mesophytic vegetation. In order to depict the climatic changes and floral succession in the middle and high latitudes of the North Hemisphere, palynological investigation was engaged, and 40 samples collected from the uppermost of Taerlang Formation, Hongyanchi Formation and Quanzijie Formation in the Tianshan Town, Turpan-Hami Basin, eastern Xinjiang, China. The result shows that the palynoflora in the studied area is composed of 50 species of 33 genera, domi-nated by disaccites and striatiti gymnosperm pollen, and characterized by diverse Protohaploxypinus, Hamia-pollenites, Alisporites and Klausipollenites. It is quite similar to those Middle and Late Permian palynological as-semblages reported in the Dalongkou section and other localities in southern margin of Junggar Basin, and aged at Middle and Late Permian. The diversity of typical Angara and sub-Angara pollen, such as Falcisporites, Alisporites, Protohaploxypinus, Vittatina, Lunatisporites, Hamiapollenites, etc. indicates that the studied palyno-flora belonged to the sub-Angara phytoprovince, while the presence of Lueckisporites virkkiae implied Euramerica pollen intruded northward sometimes. The paleoclimate of the studied area might be warm and humid with fluc-tuated dry seasons during the late Guadalupian and early Lopingian time.  相似文献   

Holocene vegetation and climate change in southern New Zealand: linkages between forest composition and quantitative surface moisture reconstructions from an ombrogenous bog     

Janet M. Wilmshurst  Matt S. McGlone  Dan J. Charman 《第四纪科学杂志》2002,17(7):653-666

This paper presents a Holocene pollen record from an ombrotrophic bog in Southland, New Zealand, together with multiproxy data (testate amoebae, peat humification and plant macrofossils) from the same core to establish an independent semiquantitative record of peatland surface moisture. Linkages between reconstructed peatland surface moisture and regional forest composition are investigated using redundancy analysis of the forest pollen data constrained with predicted bog water‐table depths. Over 32% of the pollen data variance can be explained by surface moisture changes in the bog, suggesting a common cause of water‐table and regional vegetation change. Water tables were higher during the early to mid‐Holocene when the forest was dominated by podocarp taxa. Water tables lowered after about 3300 cal. yr BP coevally with the expansion of Nothofagus species, culminating with the dominance of Nothofagus subgenus Fuscospora in the past 1200 cal. yr BP. This is in apparent opposition to the warm/dry to cool/wet trend suggested by subjective interpretation of pollen data alone, from this and other studies. We suggest that during the late Holocene, drier summers associated with shifts in solar insolation caused reduced surface wetness and summer humidity, which together with a trend to cooler winters, apparently favoured the regeneration of Nothofagus species. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Early Eocene estuary at Strahan,Tasmania     

M. S. Pole 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(6):979-985

Evidence from sedimentology is combined with that of palynology and macropalaeobotany to arrive at a general reconstruction of the Early Eocene environment in Macquarie Harbour in western Tasmania and its major vegetation types. The environment is interpreted as estuarine with a range of subenvironments including estuarine mouth bar, fully subtidal sands, tidal flat with mangroves, and freshwater swamps. Supratidal freshwater swamp forest (sometimes conifer‐dominated) was fringed with Nypa mangrove swamps in the high tidal regions. Non‐vegetated tidal mud and sand flats occurred in regions with longer tidal submergence. The Macquaríe Harbour beds are given formation status and the Strahan Sand Member is defined.  相似文献   

云南江城勐野井组钾盐成矿时代及其古环境研究   总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9  

袁秦  秦占杰  魏海成  盛淑蓉  山发寿 《地球学报》2013,34(5):631-637

研究云南江城勐野井组的成钾时代, 对于分析兰坪—思茅盆地与老挝沙空那空、呵叻盆地含盐系地层对应关系, 以及在云南开展钾盐找矿工作具有重要意义, 但勐野井组的地层学年代至今仍存在较大分歧。本文通过对江城宝藏乡泰裕矿区含盐系地层的孢粉分析, 得到孢粉组合: Psophophaera-Exesipollenites- Classopollis, 且发现单沟类Monocolpopollenites和三沟类Tricopite等被子植物花粉, 此被子植物花粉时代分别为晚巴列姆期—阿普第期和早、中阿尔必期。因此, 笔者将江城勐野井组钾盐成矿时代确定为阿普第期—阿尔必期; 同时, 孢粉反映矿区成盐期气候呈炎热干旱的热带-亚热带特征。  相似文献   

Late glacial and holocene lake level fluctuations in Lake Biel,western Switzerland     

Barbara Wohlfarth  Anne Marie Schneider 《第四纪科学杂志》1991,6(4):293-302

Cores and outcrops from the southern shore of Lake Biel were studied to reconstruct the nearshore environment of the lake between ca. 12000 and 5000 yr BP. Core correlations were established by lithostratigraphical and pollen analytical correlations. From the Allerød to the Preboreal time quiet hydrodynamic conditions favoured the deposition of lake marl in the littoral zone and peat on the shore. Between the Preboreal(?) and the Atlantic the littoral zone shows a higher hydrodynamic environment with allochthonous material, whereas peat and clay layers are recorded from the shore. During the Older Atlantic severe erosional episodes caused the erosion of Boreal, Preboreal and Younger Atlantic layers. The previously described long hiatus between the Allerød and the Boreal time can now be connected with these erosional episodes. From Younger Atlantic to Subboreal time the littoral zone displays quiet conditions again with sedimentation of lake marl. On the basis of these results a lake level curve for Lake Biel is proposed: high lake level stands can be traced during the Allerød, Boreal, Older Atlantic and Younger Atlantic biozones; low lake level stands are found during the Allerød, Younger Dryas, Preboreal and Older Atlantic biozones.  相似文献