Fluvial terraces are important geomorphic markers for modern valley development.When coupled with numeric ages,terraces can provide abundant information about tectonic,climatic,paleohydrological and the paleoenvironme...Fluvial terraces are important geomorphic markers for modern valley development.When coupled with numeric ages,terraces can provide abundant information about tectonic,climatic,paleohydrological and the paleoenvironmental changes.On the basis of the paleomagnetic,electron spin resonance(ESR) and optically stimulated luminescence(OSL) dating,in addition to an investigation of local loess-paleosol sequences,we confirmed that 13 fluvial terraces were formed,and then preserved,along the course of the Upper Weihe River in the Sanyangchuan Basin over the past 1.2 Ma.Analyses of the characteristics and genesis of these terraces indicate that they resulted from the response of this particular river system to climate change over an orbital scale.These changes can further be placed within the context of local and regional tectonic uplift,and represent an alternation between lateral migration and vertical incision,dependent upon the predominance of climatic and tectonic controls during different periods.Most of the terraces are strikingly similar in that they have several meters of paleosols which have developed directly on top of fluvial deposits located on the terrace treads,suggesting that the abandonment of terraces due to river incision occurred during the transitions from glacial to interglacial climates.The temporal and spatial differences in the distribution patterns of terraces located on either side of the river valley indicate that a tectonic inversion occurred in Sanyangchuan Basin at-0.62 Ma,and that this was characterized by a transition from overall uplift to depression induced by fault activity.Synthesized studies of the Basin's terraces indicate that formation of the modern valley of the Upper Weihe River may have begun in the late Early Pleistocene between1.4-1.2 Ma.展开更多
河流阶地详细记录了区域构造活动和地貌演化信息,可为第四纪地貌阶段性隆升提供证据。位于四川大凉山区的昭觉河流域及其支流地处青藏高原东南部,横断山脉与四川盆地西南缘的过渡带,发育了河流阶地等层状地貌。以昭觉河的支流比尔河为...河流阶地详细记录了区域构造活动和地貌演化信息,可为第四纪地貌阶段性隆升提供证据。位于四川大凉山区的昭觉河流域及其支流地处青藏高原东南部,横断山脉与四川盆地西南缘的过渡带,发育了河流阶地等层状地貌。以昭觉河的支流比尔河为研究对象,通过野外河流阶地级序及阶地沉积物调查,结合14C测年结果,厘定了比尔河的3级河流阶地,其中T_(2)和T_(3)为基座阶地,T1为堆积阶地,形成时间为27.75 ka B.P.、12.20 ka B.P.以及6.65 ka B.P.,其中T3阶地与T2阶地的河流下切速率分别为0.59~1.29 mm/a和1.26~4.50 mm/a。认为川西大凉山地区30 000 a以来地貌至少经历了2次间歇性抬升,在整体隆升过程中,河流上游较中下游的地壳抬升速度更快,具有掀斜式抬升特征。T_(3)、T_(2)、T_(1)阶地的形成与研究区气候变化有一定相关性,但新构造运动是比尔河河流阶地形成的主导因素,这对了解川西地区晚更新世以来河流阶地的级序展布及演化具有重要意义。展开更多
The Huang Shui River, a main tributary of the Yellow River, crosses a series of tectonically subsided and uplifted areas that show different patterns of terrace formation. The distribution of fluvial terrace of the Hu...The Huang Shui River, a main tributary of the Yellow River, crosses a series of tectonically subsided and uplifted areas that show different patterns of terrace formation. The distribution of fluvial terrace of the Huang Shui River is studied through topographic and sedimentologic terrace mapping. Three terraces in the Haiyan Basin, four terraces in the Huangyuan Basin, 19 terraces in the Xi＇ning Basin （the four high terraces may belong to another river）, nine terraces in the Ping＇an Basin, five terraces in the Ledu Basin and 12 terraces in the Minhe Basin are recognized. Sedimentology research shows that the geomorphologic and sedimentological pattern of the Huang Shui River, which is located at the margin of Tibet, are different from that of the rivers at other regions. The formation process of the terrace is more complicated at the Huang Shui catchment： both accumulation terrace and erosion terrace were formed in each basin and accumulation terraces were developed in some basins when erosion terraces were formed in other basins, indicating fluvial aggradation may occur in some basins simultaneously with river incision in other basins. A conceptual model of the formation process of these two kinds of fluvial terraces at Huang Shui catchment is brought forward in this paper. First, the equilibrium state of the river is broken because of climatic change and/or tectonic movement, and the river incises in all basins in the whole catchment until reaching a new equilibrium state. Then, the downstream basin subsides quickly and the equilibrium state is broken again, and the river incises at upstream basins while the river accumulates at the subsidence basin quickly until approaching a new equilibrium state again. Finally, the river incises in the whole catchment because of climatic change and/or tectonic movement and the accumulation terrace is formed at the subsidence basin while the erosion terrace is formed at other basins. The existence of the accumulation terrace implied the tectonic subsidence in the s展开更多
对西昆仑山前依格孜也尔河阶地进行野外地质调查,获得阶地河拔、分布、发育及沉积特征等资料。在此基础上,分析阶地沉积相及沉积环境,进一步研究西昆仑山前河流阶地发育成因及河流演化过程。依格孜也尔河发育基座阶地T4和T3,堆积阶地T2...对西昆仑山前依格孜也尔河阶地进行野外地质调查,获得阶地河拔、分布、发育及沉积特征等资料。在此基础上,分析阶地沉积相及沉积环境,进一步研究西昆仑山前河流阶地发育成因及河流演化过程。依格孜也尔河发育基座阶地T4和T3,堆积阶地T2和T1,阶地T1、T2、T3和T4时代依次为5~8 ka B.P.、18~30 ka B.P.、40~50 ka B.P.和80~100 ka B.P.。阶地形成主要受控于间歇性构造抬升,受气候变化影响较小,阶地类型差异主要受河流演化影响。阶地沉积相分析表明,T4和T3阶地分别为泥石流相和冲洪积扇相,河流侵蚀作用强,间歇性堆积;T2阶地沉积期河流系统出现重大转变,呈多旋回辫状河沉积,堆积作用增强;T1阶地为主河道-漫滩相沉积,侵蚀-堆积作用趋于平衡。展开更多
River evolution at margins of the Tibetan Plateau may provide valuable information for understanding climatic change and tectonic movement of the past. Here we focus on the Huangshui River,a tributary of the Yellow Ri...River evolution at margins of the Tibetan Plateau may provide valuable information for understanding climatic change and tectonic movement of the past. Here we focus on the Huangshui River,a tributary of the Yellow River,crossing a series of tectonically subsided and uplifted areas that show diversity patterns of terrace formation.The distribution of fluvial terrace is studied by mapping and dating.Three terraces in Haiyan basin,four terraces in Huangyuan basin,19 terraces in Xi’ning basin,nine terraces in Ping’an basin,five terraces in Ledu basin and 12 terraces in Minhe basin are recognized.Magne-展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41471008,91125008 and 41330745the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.LZUJBKY-2016-161).
文摘Fluvial terraces are important geomorphic markers for modern valley development.When coupled with numeric ages,terraces can provide abundant information about tectonic,climatic,paleohydrological and the paleoenvironmental changes.On the basis of the paleomagnetic,electron spin resonance(ESR) and optically stimulated luminescence(OSL) dating,in addition to an investigation of local loess-paleosol sequences,we confirmed that 13 fluvial terraces were formed,and then preserved,along the course of the Upper Weihe River in the Sanyangchuan Basin over the past 1.2 Ma.Analyses of the characteristics and genesis of these terraces indicate that they resulted from the response of this particular river system to climate change over an orbital scale.These changes can further be placed within the context of local and regional tectonic uplift,and represent an alternation between lateral migration and vertical incision,dependent upon the predominance of climatic and tectonic controls during different periods.Most of the terraces are strikingly similar in that they have several meters of paleosols which have developed directly on top of fluvial deposits located on the terrace treads,suggesting that the abandonment of terraces due to river incision occurred during the transitions from glacial to interglacial climates.The temporal and spatial differences in the distribution patterns of terraces located on either side of the river valley indicate that a tectonic inversion occurred in Sanyangchuan Basin at-0.62 Ma,and that this was characterized by a transition from overall uplift to depression induced by fault activity.Synthesized studies of the Basin's terraces indicate that formation of the modern valley of the Upper Weihe River may have begun in the late Early Pleistocene between1.4-1.2 Ma.
文摘河流阶地详细记录了区域构造活动和地貌演化信息,可为第四纪地貌阶段性隆升提供证据。位于四川大凉山区的昭觉河流域及其支流地处青藏高原东南部,横断山脉与四川盆地西南缘的过渡带,发育了河流阶地等层状地貌。以昭觉河的支流比尔河为研究对象,通过野外河流阶地级序及阶地沉积物调查,结合14C测年结果,厘定了比尔河的3级河流阶地,其中T_(2)和T_(3)为基座阶地,T1为堆积阶地,形成时间为27.75 ka B.P.、12.20 ka B.P.以及6.65 ka B.P.,其中T3阶地与T2阶地的河流下切速率分别为0.59~1.29 mm/a和1.26~4.50 mm/a。认为川西大凉山地区30 000 a以来地貌至少经历了2次间歇性抬升,在整体隆升过程中,河流上游较中下游的地壳抬升速度更快,具有掀斜式抬升特征。T_(3)、T_(2)、T_(1)阶地的形成与研究区气候变化有一定相关性,但新构造运动是比尔河河流阶地形成的主导因素,这对了解川西地区晚更新世以来河流阶地的级序展布及演化具有重要意义。
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant no.40901002 and 40325007)the 985 project to Nanjing University and the CAS-KNAW PhD project(05-PhD-10)
文摘The Huang Shui River, a main tributary of the Yellow River, crosses a series of tectonically subsided and uplifted areas that show different patterns of terrace formation. The distribution of fluvial terrace of the Huang Shui River is studied through topographic and sedimentologic terrace mapping. Three terraces in the Haiyan Basin, four terraces in the Huangyuan Basin, 19 terraces in the Xi＇ning Basin （the four high terraces may belong to another river）, nine terraces in the Ping＇an Basin, five terraces in the Ledu Basin and 12 terraces in the Minhe Basin are recognized. Sedimentology research shows that the geomorphologic and sedimentological pattern of the Huang Shui River, which is located at the margin of Tibet, are different from that of the rivers at other regions. The formation process of the terrace is more complicated at the Huang Shui catchment： both accumulation terrace and erosion terrace were formed in each basin and accumulation terraces were developed in some basins when erosion terraces were formed in other basins, indicating fluvial aggradation may occur in some basins simultaneously with river incision in other basins. A conceptual model of the formation process of these two kinds of fluvial terraces at Huang Shui catchment is brought forward in this paper. First, the equilibrium state of the river is broken because of climatic change and/or tectonic movement, and the river incises in all basins in the whole catchment until reaching a new equilibrium state. Then, the downstream basin subsides quickly and the equilibrium state is broken again, and the river incises at upstream basins while the river accumulates at the subsidence basin quickly until approaching a new equilibrium state again. Finally, the river incises in the whole catchment because of climatic change and/or tectonic movement and the accumulation terrace is formed at the subsidence basin while the erosion terrace is formed at other basins. The existence of the accumulation terrace implied the tectonic subsidence in the s
文摘对西昆仑山前依格孜也尔河阶地进行野外地质调查,获得阶地河拔、分布、发育及沉积特征等资料。在此基础上,分析阶地沉积相及沉积环境,进一步研究西昆仑山前河流阶地发育成因及河流演化过程。依格孜也尔河发育基座阶地T4和T3,堆积阶地T2和T1,阶地T1、T2、T3和T4时代依次为5~8 ka B.P.、18~30 ka B.P.、40~50 ka B.P.和80~100 ka B.P.。阶地形成主要受控于间歇性构造抬升,受气候变化影响较小,阶地类型差异主要受河流演化影响。阶地沉积相分析表明,T4和T3阶地分别为泥石流相和冲洪积扇相,河流侵蚀作用强,间歇性堆积;T2阶地沉积期河流系统出现重大转变,呈多旋回辫状河沉积,堆积作用增强;T1阶地为主河道-漫滩相沉积,侵蚀-堆积作用趋于平衡。
文摘River evolution at margins of the Tibetan Plateau may provide valuable information for understanding climatic change and tectonic movement of the past. Here we focus on the Huangshui River,a tributary of the Yellow River,crossing a series of tectonically subsided and uplifted areas that show diversity patterns of terrace formation.The distribution of fluvial terrace is studied by mapping and dating.Three terraces in Haiyan basin,four terraces in Huangyuan basin,19 terraces in Xi’ning basin,nine terraces in Ping’an basin,five terraces in Ledu basin and 12 terraces in Minhe basin are recognized.Magne-
