先前研究认为老红砂是末次冰期沿海风沙沉积,近期发现老红砂形成于末次间冰期。在福建平潭青峰典型老红砂分布区采集114个老红砂样品,130冬季风沙样品,60个夏季风沙样品做粒度测量和光释光测年。粒度测量显示冬季风沙粒度频率峰值出现在...先前研究认为老红砂是末次冰期沿海风沙沉积,近期发现老红砂形成于末次间冰期。在福建平潭青峰典型老红砂分布区采集114个老红砂样品,130冬季风沙样品,60个夏季风沙样品做粒度测量和光释光测年。粒度测量显示冬季风沙粒度频率峰值出现在400μm、夏季风沙280μm,老红砂粒度频率峰值出现在300μm与冬季风沙不同。夏季风沙和冬季风沙以7∶3混合可拟合老红砂粒度分布,表明青峰老红砂沉积期夏季风历时或强度远大于冬季风,对应于气候暖期,而不是末次冰期。老红砂剖面4个自然层光释光测年自下而上为122.5±6.7 ka B.P.、97.7±6.1 ka B.P.、83.1±4.2 ka B.P.、61.9±3.4 ka B.P.,对应末次间冰期,青峰老红砂是暖期气候的风沙响应。展开更多
The variation of the Asian winter monsoonal strength has seriously affected the climate and environmental conditions in the Asian monsoonal region, and even in marginal islands and the ocean in the East Asian region. ...The variation of the Asian winter monsoonal strength has seriously affected the climate and environmental conditions in the Asian monsoonal region, and even in marginal islands and the ocean in the East Asian region. However, relevant under-standing remains unclear due to the lack of suitable geological materials and effective proxies in the key study areas. Here, we present a grain-size record derived from the palaeo-aeolian sand dune in the southeastern Mu Us Desert, together with other proxies and OSL dating, which reflect a relatively detailed history of the winter monsoon and abrupt environmental events during the past 4.2 ka. Our grain-size standard deviation model indicated that 〉224 μm content can be considered as an indicator of the intensity of Asian winter monsoon, and it shows declined around 4.2–2.1 ka, enhanced but unstable in 2.1–0.9 ka, and obviously stronger since then. In addition, several typical climate events were also documented, forced by the periodic variation of winter monsoonal intensity. These include the cold intervals of 4.2, 2.8, 1.4 ka, and the Little Ice Age （LIA）, and relatively warm sub-phases around 3.0, 2.1, 1.8 ka, and the Medieval Warm Period （MWP）, which were roughly accordant with the records of the aeolian materials, peat, stalagmites, ice cores, and sea sediments in various latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Combined with the previous progresses of the Asian summer monsoon, we prelimi-narily confirmed a millennial-scale anti-correlation of Asian winter and summer monsoons in the Late Holocene epoch. This study suggests that the evolution of the palaeo-aeolian sand dune has the potential for comprehending the history of Asian monsoon across the desert regions of the modern Asian monsoonal margin in northern China.展开更多
文摘先前研究认为老红砂是末次冰期沿海风沙沉积,近期发现老红砂形成于末次间冰期。在福建平潭青峰典型老红砂分布区采集114个老红砂样品,130冬季风沙样品,60个夏季风沙样品做粒度测量和光释光测年。粒度测量显示冬季风沙粒度频率峰值出现在400μm、夏季风沙280μm,老红砂粒度频率峰值出现在300μm与冬季风沙不同。夏季风沙和冬季风沙以7∶3混合可拟合老红砂粒度分布,表明青峰老红砂沉积期夏季风历时或强度远大于冬季风,对应于气候暖期,而不是末次冰期。老红砂剖面4个自然层光释光测年自下而上为122.5±6.7 ka B.P.、97.7±6.1 ka B.P.、83.1±4.2 ka B.P.、61.9±3.4 ka B.P.,对应末次间冰期,青峰老红砂是暖期气候的风沙响应。
基金funded by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZZD-EW-04-04)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos., 41271215, 41501220)+1 种基金the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2015M570861)the State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University (No. 2015-KF-13)
文摘The variation of the Asian winter monsoonal strength has seriously affected the climate and environmental conditions in the Asian monsoonal region, and even in marginal islands and the ocean in the East Asian region. However, relevant under-standing remains unclear due to the lack of suitable geological materials and effective proxies in the key study areas. Here, we present a grain-size record derived from the palaeo-aeolian sand dune in the southeastern Mu Us Desert, together with other proxies and OSL dating, which reflect a relatively detailed history of the winter monsoon and abrupt environmental events during the past 4.2 ka. Our grain-size standard deviation model indicated that 〉224 μm content can be considered as an indicator of the intensity of Asian winter monsoon, and it shows declined around 4.2–2.1 ka, enhanced but unstable in 2.1–0.9 ka, and obviously stronger since then. In addition, several typical climate events were also documented, forced by the periodic variation of winter monsoonal intensity. These include the cold intervals of 4.2, 2.8, 1.4 ka, and the Little Ice Age （LIA）, and relatively warm sub-phases around 3.0, 2.1, 1.8 ka, and the Medieval Warm Period （MWP）, which were roughly accordant with the records of the aeolian materials, peat, stalagmites, ice cores, and sea sediments in various latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Combined with the previous progresses of the Asian summer monsoon, we prelimi-narily confirmed a millennial-scale anti-correlation of Asian winter and summer monsoons in the Late Holocene epoch. This study suggests that the evolution of the palaeo-aeolian sand dune has the potential for comprehending the history of Asian monsoon across the desert regions of the modern Asian monsoonal margin in northern China.
