Palaeoenvironmental records in Holocene Spanish tufas: a stable isotope approach in search of reliable climatic archives   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Julian E. Andrews  Martyn Pedley  & Paul F. Dennis 《Sedimentology》2000,47(5):961-978

Tufa deposits are potential terrestrial archives of palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic information. This study assesses the potential of stable isotopic archives from two closely juxtaposed Holocene tufa sites in SE Spain. The Ruidera site contains deep‐water lacustrine micrites and tufas, whereas the nearby Alcaraz site represents a shallow barrage tufa. Understanding site characteristics is critical to interpreting the stable isotopic variations. These Holocene lacustrine micrites have isotopic compositions consistent with modern European lake shore microbial carbonates, where the isotopic chemistry is strongly influenced by hydrological and residence time effects. All the lacustrine micrite δ¹³C values were influenced by microenvironmental microbial effects to some degree. Because of these effects, stable isotope data from lacustrine microbial micrites and tufas will not normally yield precise information on the isotopic composition of palaeoprecipitation, temperature or vegetation composition of an area. In contrast, Holocene tufas that formed in shallow, fast‐flowing riverine settings may contain valuable palaeoclimatic archives. The tufa deposits must be largely autochthonous, as at Alcaraz, where in situ reed stem encrustations are present. Records of relative change in air temperature and changes in the source of airmasses are potentially resolvable in the δ¹⁸O data. These interpretations can be verified by other independent climatic data where chronology is constrained. Variations in riverine tufa δ¹³C values probably record changes in local vegetation and/or soil respiration. Covariation between δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C values may be intrinsically linked to climatic factors such as aridity. Tentative palaeoclimatic interpretations for the middle Holocene at Alcaraz based on the isotope data suggest warming (or increasing influence of Mediterranean‐sourced precipitation) between approximately 5000–3000 radiocarbon years BP, accompanied by increased aridity. These interpretations are consistent with the sparse independent palaeoclimatic data and climate modelling results for the Holocene of SE Spain. This study supports the growing evidence that well‐chosen tufa sites could yield valuable palaeoclimatic information.  相似文献   

东濮凹陷西洼南段老第三系岩相古地理特征   总被引：3，自引：3，他引：0       下载免费PDF全文

吴智勇  郭建华  吴东胜  何宏 《古地理学报》2000,2(1):43-48

东濮凹陷西洼南段老第三系属地堑型湖盆沉积,主要发育河流相、三角洲相、冲积扇相、扇三角洲相以及湖泊相。两条边界断层,尤其是西侧长垣断层的活动性控制着该区的岩相古地理格局：断层活动强烈时,湖盆水域扩大,湖水加深,主要发育扇三角洲、三角洲及深湖－半深湖沉积;断层活动减弱时,水体变浅或干涸,湖盆被充填,主要发育冲积扇或河流相沉积。  相似文献   

The magnetic properties of the recent sediments of Brothers Water, N W England     

Frank Oldfield  Ruijin Wu 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2000,23(2):165-174

The magnetic properties of recent sediments from five short cores from Brothers Water in the English Lake District are compared with those from a set of catchment soil samples. From the comparison, it is concluded that bacterial magnetosomes have made a significant contribution to the magnetic properties of the sediments of the last five decades. This contribution is superimposed on a continuing erosive input of haematite-rich sediment from the parent materials of the catchment and may obscure any possible increase in surface soil input during recent times. The results highlight the difficulty of making sediment-source linkages where biogenic contributions to the magnetic properties of the sediment are important relative to the input of magnetic minerals from catchment erosion.  相似文献   

Changes in fossil midge (Chironomidae) assemblages in response to cultural activities in a shallow, polymictic lake   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

J.L. Little  J.P. Smol 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2000,23(2):207-212

Chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) head capsules were studied from a core of recent sediments from shallow, macrophyte-dominated Lake Opinicon, Ontario, Canada, to determine if assemblages have changed in response to lake-level changes and other watershed disturbances, including deforestation and agriculture. Our results indicate that the construction of the Rideau Canal in the early 1830s and subsequent flooding of Lake Opinicon has had the greatest impact on this system, but that even this disturbance did not greatly affect chironomid assemblages. Despite other significant cultural disturbances in the watershed, the lake sediments have recorded only minor changes in its recent history, providing support for the hypothesis of alternative lake equilibria. These results correspond well with diatom inferences of only minor changes in past lake trophic status.  相似文献   

Importance of diffuse nutrient loading and lake level changes to the eutrophication of an originally oligotrophic boreal lake: a palaeolimnological diatom and chironomid analysis     

Jarmo J. Meriläinen  Juhani Hynynen  Arja Palomäki  Pasi Reinikainen  Anssi Teppo  Kaj Granberg 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2000,24(3):251-270

The recent environmental history of Lake Lappajärvi in western Finland (63°00 N, 23°30 E, area 149 km²), a humic, brown water lake with an average phosphorus content of ca. 20 g l^–1, was studied from short core sediment samples taken from the two main basins of the lake. Based on the stratigraphy of diatoms and chironomids and the sediment quality it was possible to distinguish four developmental stages during the past century: (1) a pre-industrial stage covering the time up to about 1935; (2) a stage of increasing nutrient loading (ca. 1936–1960); (3) a stage of pronounced erosion from lake level regulation and extensive ditching of the catchment area (ca. 1960–1970); and (4) a meso-eutrophic stage from ca. 1970 onwards.Acidophilous Aulacoseira distans coll. and other species typical of dystrophic, nutrient-poor lakes characterized the diatom assemblages during the first stage, and the profundal zoobenthic assemblages, characterized by Heterotrissocladius subpilosus and Micropsectra, indicated good hypolimnetic oxygen conditions and a low sedimentation of organic matter (approx. less than 50 g m^–2 a^–1). The increased loading rapidly led to changes both in diatoms and chironomids (e.g., to an early extinction of H. subpilosus in the 1950s). The process finally led to eutrophication with a successive proliferation of diatom species such as Asterionella formosa followed by Aulacoseira ambigua, Fragilaria crotonensis, and finally Melosira varians. The relative proportion of alkaliphilous species reached a maximum in the final stage and the original profundal chironomid fauna was replaced by Chironomus anthracinus gr. and C. plumosus which are typical of profundal areas suffering from temporal oxygen deficit. It is notable that the considerable decrease in waste water loading from the point sources (80–86% ) during the past two decades has not led to a recovery in the lake. This highlights the importance of diffuse loading from agriculture, forestry and other human activities even to this comparatively large lake.  相似文献   

Cladoceran and chironomid assemblages as qualitative indicators of water depth in subarctic Fennoscandian lakes     

Atte Korhola  Heikki Olander  Tom Blom 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2000,24(1):43-54

The relationship between surface-sediment cladoceran and chironomid communities to lake depth was analysed in 53 lakes distributed across timberline in northern Fennoscandia using multivariate statistical approaches. The study sites are small and bathymerically simple, with water depth ranging from 0.85-27.0 m (mean 6.36 m). Maximum lake depth was the most important factor in explaining the cladoceran distributions and the second most important factor in explaining the chironomid distributions in these subarctic lakes, as assessed on the basis of a series of constrained RDAs, Monte Carlo permutation tests, and variance partitioning. Quantitative inference models for maximum lake depth were created for both groups of animals. Well-performing calibration functions for predicting lake depth were obtained in each case using linear partial least squares (PLS) regression and calibration, weighted averaging (WA) with an 'inverse' deshrinking regression, and weighted averaging partial least squares (WA-PLS). Quantitative reconstructions of lake level fluctuations should be possible from cladoceran and chironomid core data with a root mean squared error of prediction (RMSEP), as estimated by jack-knifing, of about 1.6-3.0 m.  相似文献   

Palaeoclihlatic Indicators of China''s Quaternary Saline Lake Sediments and Hydrochemistry     

ZHENG Mianping  ZHAO Yuanyi  LIU JunyingResearch & Development Center of Saline Lake  Epithermal Deposits  Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences  Beijing 《《地质学报》英文版》2000,74(2)

In this paper the authors classify saline lake sediments into the cold, warm and eurythermal phases, reveal the consistency between the zoning of hydrochemical types of modern saline lake water and climatic zoning and give climatic parameters under the conditions of typical cold phase (mirabilite and natron), warm phase (thenar-dite) and slightly warm phase (bloedite) saline lake deposition.  相似文献   

Abrupt Change of Lake Environment in West China:an Evidence for Global Climate Warming     

Li Shijie  Shi Yafeng  Li Wanchun  Wu Jinglu  Yin Yu  Yang Xiangdong  Xia WeilanWT  ”BX 《地学前缘》2000,(Z1)

ABRUPT CHANGE OF LAKE ENVIRONMENT IN WEST CHINA: AN EVIDENCE FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE WARMINGtheNational(G19980 4 0 80 2 )andCAS’sKeyProjectonTibetanPlateauResearch(KZ951 A1 2 0 4 )  相似文献   

盐湖资源的开发利用与保护对策研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

刘振敏 《化工矿产地质》1998,20(4):315-319

在我国已发现的大、小千余个盐湖中,蕴藏着极其丰富的固体盐类资源、卤水资源和生物资源,其中固体盐类资源和卤水资源是化学工业生产的重要原料,并占有重要位置。随着盐湖资源广泛地开发利用,也给盐湖资源、生态环境带来诸多问题,有人为因素,也有自然因素。因此,盐湖资源的开发利用应与化学工业的可持续发展战略结合起来,不但研究其新技术、新方法,而且还要研究如何抵御自然因素和人为因素给盐湖资源及生态环境带来的灾害和破坏;在研究盐湖资源的合理开发利用的同时,还要研究盐湖的保护措施与对策。  相似文献   

中瑞合作利用“许氏法”开发盐湖卤水中锂资源   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10  

陈延成 《化工矿产地质》1998,20(1):49-54

自 70年代以来 ,利用传统方法在青海进行的盐湖卤水提锂未见成效。利用“许氏法”(“蒸发泵原理”及“原地化学反应池法”)对青海察尔汗盐湖的高镁含锂老卤进行室内及野外提锂试验 ,均获得成功。不但富集了锂卤水 (LiCl含量自 0 .72 1 2 g/L富集至 45 .1 8g/L) ,而且还得到了大量的副产品水氯镁石 (MgCl2 ·6H2 O) ,同时查明Br、I、B、Rb、Sr、Cs等微量元素赋存在锂卤水中。“许氏法”不但成本低、效益高、方法可行、工艺合理 ,而且保护了盐湖区的生态环境 ,实为一种值得推广的盐湖卤水提锂的加工工艺  相似文献