通过对黄河源区玛曲段河谷开展野外考察,在太吾若(TWR)发现典型的古洪水滞流沉积剖面。根据野外沉积学宏观特征判别,并结合粒度分布、磁化率、地球化学元素和石英颗粒微形态特征等室内实验分析测定结果,准确鉴别出TWR剖面所夹一组多层...通过对黄河源区玛曲段河谷开展野外考察,在太吾若(TWR)发现典型的古洪水滞流沉积剖面。根据野外沉积学宏观特征判别,并结合粒度分布、磁化率、地球化学元素和石英颗粒微形态特征等室内实验分析测定结果,准确鉴别出TWR剖面所夹一组多层洪水滞流沉积物(SWD),属典型的河流洪水在高水位滞流环境下沉积的悬移质泥沙。结果表明,TWR剖面古洪水SWD和现代洪水SWD沉积学分类为沙质粉沙,现代土壤为黏土质粉沙,现代风成沙为中沙。古洪水SWD粒度自然分布频率曲线为正偏,呈单峰,主峰高且峰值集中,分选性良好。古洪水SWD和现代洪水SWD磁化率较低,介于现代土壤和现代风成沙之间,化学元素明显区别于现代土壤和现代风成沙,表明它们尚未受到风化成壤作用影响,为古洪水悬移质快速沉积形成的滞流沉积物。石英颗粒微形态特征的分析表明,古洪水SWD和现代洪水SWD石英颗粒表面分布明显的三角痕、V形坑、撞击坑和凹面等水成沉积物的典型特征,属于河流沙类型。采用单片再生剂量法(SAR)光释光技术测年,证明在13.6~13.0 ka BP,黄河源地区经历了一期多次的大洪水事件,发生时段对应末次冰消期向全新世转折的时期,与欧洲和格陵兰冰芯记录末次冰消期中的Bolling/Aellrod暖期相对应,此时青藏高原地区冰川大规模消融,这期古洪水事件正是流域内冰融水大量下泄汇入黄河而形成的大洪水。展开更多
The 'Old Red Sand' is a type of semicemented medium-fine sandy sediment that is red(10R_4/8) or brown red(2.5YR_4/8) in colour and is found in late Quaternary deposits. The sediments have distinctive character...The 'Old Red Sand' is a type of semicemented medium-fine sandy sediment that is red(10R_4/8) or brown red(2.5YR_4/8) in colour and is found in late Quaternary deposits. The sediments have distinctive characteristics and are a critical archive for understanding climatic changes in the coastal areas of East Asia. The ages of the late Quaternary aeolian sand dunes from Haitan Island in the coastal area of South China are still in debate. In this study, three sets of marine terraces were identified in the northern region of Haitan Island. Aeolian dune sands are well preserved on the top of these terraces. Quartz Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating and the distribution of the formation ages demonstrated that the palaeo-dunes are deposits from the middle-late period of the Late Pleistocene(Q_3^(2-3)). The period may be divided into three stages, 100-90 ka, 70-60 ka, and 40-20 ka, in which the palaeo-dunes of the first two stages are more widespread and were formed separately during a low-sea level period of the Marine Isotope Stages 5 b and 4. Several depositional palaeo-flood event records were preserved during the last stage due to the increasing gradient of mountain gullies formed during the Last Glacial Maximum.展开更多
Riverine sand dunes develop as a result of fluvial-aeolian interactions. The primarily barchan dune chains along the Xiangshui River(a branch of the Xar Moron River in the western part of the Horqin Sandy Land of Chin...Riverine sand dunes develop as a result of fluvial-aeolian interactions. The primarily barchan dune chains along the Xiangshui River(a branch of the Xar Moron River in the western part of the Horqin Sandy Land of China) form a typical riverine dune field. We collected a series of samples from the riverine sand dunes parallel to the direction of the prevailing wind and investigated the sand sources and formation mechanisms of these dunes by determining the grain size, heavy mineral content and optically stimulated luminescence(OSL) of the samples. The sand of the near-river dunes was coarser than the sand of the dunes distant from the river, indicating that coarse sand of the valley mainly deposited on near-river dunes. The heavy mineral analysis suggested that wind-sand activity levels were intense on the upwind dunes, but relatively weak on the downwind dunes. This indicated that the sand sources for the near-river dunes were more abundant than those of the distant dunes. Our OSL analysis of samples suggested that the deposition rates on dunes near the river were greater than the deposition rates on dunes distant from the river. The development of dunes along the river indicated that the river played an important role in dune formation and development. In addition, airflow fluctuation and the formation of the waveform dunes had a type of feedback relationship. Grain size, heavy mineral and OSL analyses are widely used methods in wind-sand research. Sand dune grain size characteristics reflect the effects of airflow on the transport and separation of sand materials, as well as the physical characteristics of the sand sources. Heavy mineral characteristics are often used to investigate the relationships between sediments and sand sources. OSL indicates dune age, revealing formation of dunes. Therefore, it is useful to explore dune sand sources, as well as the mechanisms underlying dune formation, by determining grain size, heavy mineral content and OSL. This study investigated the sand sources of riverine dunes an展开更多
文摘通过对黄河源区玛曲段河谷开展野外考察,在太吾若(TWR)发现典型的古洪水滞流沉积剖面。根据野外沉积学宏观特征判别,并结合粒度分布、磁化率、地球化学元素和石英颗粒微形态特征等室内实验分析测定结果,准确鉴别出TWR剖面所夹一组多层洪水滞流沉积物(SWD),属典型的河流洪水在高水位滞流环境下沉积的悬移质泥沙。结果表明,TWR剖面古洪水SWD和现代洪水SWD沉积学分类为沙质粉沙,现代土壤为黏土质粉沙,现代风成沙为中沙。古洪水SWD粒度自然分布频率曲线为正偏,呈单峰,主峰高且峰值集中,分选性良好。古洪水SWD和现代洪水SWD磁化率较低,介于现代土壤和现代风成沙之间,化学元素明显区别于现代土壤和现代风成沙,表明它们尚未受到风化成壤作用影响,为古洪水悬移质快速沉积形成的滞流沉积物。石英颗粒微形态特征的分析表明,古洪水SWD和现代洪水SWD石英颗粒表面分布明显的三角痕、V形坑、撞击坑和凹面等水成沉积物的典型特征,属于河流沙类型。采用单片再生剂量法(SAR)光释光技术测年,证明在13.6~13.0 ka BP,黄河源地区经历了一期多次的大洪水事件,发生时段对应末次冰消期向全新世转折的时期,与欧洲和格陵兰冰芯记录末次冰消期中的Bolling/Aellrod暖期相对应,此时青藏高原地区冰川大规模消融,这期古洪水事件正是流域内冰融水大量下泄汇入黄河而形成的大洪水。
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 41301012, 41771020 and U1405231)Natural Science Foundation of Fujian (Grant No. 2018R1034-5)Innovation Research Team Fund of Fujian Normal University (Grant No. IRTL1705)
文摘The 'Old Red Sand' is a type of semicemented medium-fine sandy sediment that is red(10R_4/8) or brown red(2.5YR_4/8) in colour and is found in late Quaternary deposits. The sediments have distinctive characteristics and are a critical archive for understanding climatic changes in the coastal areas of East Asia. The ages of the late Quaternary aeolian sand dunes from Haitan Island in the coastal area of South China are still in debate. In this study, three sets of marine terraces were identified in the northern region of Haitan Island. Aeolian dune sands are well preserved on the top of these terraces. Quartz Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating and the distribution of the formation ages demonstrated that the palaeo-dunes are deposits from the middle-late period of the Late Pleistocene(Q_3^(2-3)). The period may be divided into three stages, 100-90 ka, 70-60 ka, and 40-20 ka, in which the palaeo-dunes of the first two stages are more widespread and were formed separately during a low-sea level period of the Marine Isotope Stages 5 b and 4. Several depositional palaeo-flood event records were preserved during the last stage due to the increasing gradient of mountain gullies formed during the Last Glacial Maximum.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41271025)the National Basic Research Program of China (2016YFA0601901)
文摘Riverine sand dunes develop as a result of fluvial-aeolian interactions. The primarily barchan dune chains along the Xiangshui River(a branch of the Xar Moron River in the western part of the Horqin Sandy Land of China) form a typical riverine dune field. We collected a series of samples from the riverine sand dunes parallel to the direction of the prevailing wind and investigated the sand sources and formation mechanisms of these dunes by determining the grain size, heavy mineral content and optically stimulated luminescence(OSL) of the samples. The sand of the near-river dunes was coarser than the sand of the dunes distant from the river, indicating that coarse sand of the valley mainly deposited on near-river dunes. The heavy mineral analysis suggested that wind-sand activity levels were intense on the upwind dunes, but relatively weak on the downwind dunes. This indicated that the sand sources for the near-river dunes were more abundant than those of the distant dunes. Our OSL analysis of samples suggested that the deposition rates on dunes near the river were greater than the deposition rates on dunes distant from the river. The development of dunes along the river indicated that the river played an important role in dune formation and development. In addition, airflow fluctuation and the formation of the waveform dunes had a type of feedback relationship. Grain size, heavy mineral and OSL analyses are widely used methods in wind-sand research. Sand dune grain size characteristics reflect the effects of airflow on the transport and separation of sand materials, as well as the physical characteristics of the sand sources. Heavy mineral characteristics are often used to investigate the relationships between sediments and sand sources. OSL indicates dune age, revealing formation of dunes. Therefore, it is useful to explore dune sand sources, as well as the mechanisms underlying dune formation, by determining grain size, heavy mineral content and OSL. This study investigated the sand sources of riverine dunes an
