Palaeovariations in the East-Asian Monsoon Regime Geochemically Recorded in Varved Sediments of Lake Sihailongwan (Northeast China, Jilin Province). Part 1: Hydrological Conditions and Dust Flux |
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| Authors: | Georg Schettler Qiang Liu Jens Mingram Jörg F W Negendank |
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| Institution: | (1) GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Germany;(2) Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China |
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| Abstract: | The varved sediments of the dimictic Lake Sihailongwan (Long Gang mountain area, Jilin Province, Northeast China) represent
a palaeoclimatic archive which documents the local precipitation frequency during the summer monsoon, and variations in the
aeolian flux of dust with their remote sources in the arid and semi-arid regions of inner Asia. Based on a detailed discussion
of sediment genesis in Lake SHL, dust flux rates and palaeohydrological conditions were reconstructed on a decadal scale over
the past 220 years. The aeolian influx by dry and wet deposition was quantified and characterised in its chemical composition.
Photosynthetic production in the lake is positively correlated with the inflow of nutrient-rich groundwater. The groundwater
discharge largely reflects the strength of the summer monsoon. Net accumulation rates for biogenic silica were determined
for annually laminated sediments from the centre of the U-shaped lake basin based on sediment data. In a Si-balance model
of the modern lake, the depositional flux of biogenic silica could be independently quantified on the base of hydrochemical
monitoring data. Comparison of the both estimates allowed to asses the focussing of the particle flux in the lake. Though
water retention in Lake SHL is rather high (ca. 30 years), changes in the hydrological conditions are sensitively recorded
in the sediments because (i) nutrient-rich groundwater discharges into the productive zone of the lake, (ii) a substantial
proportion of the total dissolved Si-inventory of the mixed lake (ca. 30%) is annually consumed by diatom growth, and (3)
sediment accumulation is substantially focussed towards the flat bottom of the lake basin. The bulk siliciclastic sediment
fraction (ca. 75 wt.%) largely originates from influx of dust of remote provenance. In sediment thin-sections, the dry-deposited
dust fraction is microscopically identifiable as seasonal silt layer. Aeolian input by wet-deposition shows a distinctly higher
variability than the influx of dust by dry-deposition. As diatom production, wet-deposition of dust is positively correlated
with the rainfall during the summer monsoon. The inferred positive correlation between rainfall and dust flux during the summer
monsoon implies that dust deposition is determined by the out-wash efficiency of mineral particles for a permanent high atmospheric
dust concentration over Northeast China in the last 220 years. |
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| Keywords: | Dust flux East-Asian monsoon Geochemistry Hydrology Palaeoclimate Sediments |
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