The upmost segment (Holocene series) of the Milanggouwan stratigraphic section (MGS1) in the Salawusu River valley shows 11 sedimentary cycles of dune sands and fluvio-lacustrine facies, or dune sands and paleosols. The analysis of the magnetic susceptibility of this segment suggests that there are 11 magnetic susceptibility cycles with the value alternating from low to high, in which the layers of the dune sands correspond to the lower value of the magnetic susceptibility and the layers of fluvio-lacustrine facies and paleosols correspond to the higher peaks. The study reveals that the low and high magnetic susceptibility values indicate the climate dominated by cold-arid winter monsoon and warm-humid summer monsoon of East Asia, respectively, and the study area has experienced at least 22 times of millennial-centennial scales climate alternation from the cold-arid to the warm-humid during the Holocene. In terms of the time and the climate nature, the variations basically correspond to those of the North Atlantic and some records of cold-warm changes in China as well. They might be caused by the alternation of winter and summer monsoons in the Mu Us Desert induced by global climate fluctuations in the Holocene.
LU YingxiaLI BaoshengWEN XiaohaoQIU ShifanWANG FengnianNIU DongfengLI Zhiwen
以米浪沟湾地层剖面作为萨拉乌苏河流域的典型剖面,探讨了150 ka B.P.以来的CaCO3含量分布与气候变化的关系。1)该剖面CaCO3含量及其低-高变化同古风成沙与上覆河湖相或古土壤构成的沉积旋回呈现出明显的对应关系。与米浪沟湾剖面的沉积旋回一样,CaCO3在分布上相应地构成了27个含量高低变化旋回。2)CaCO3在风成沙中含量的分布比较稀散,0.8％～7.18％,平均值2.50％;在河湖相和古土壤中相对富集,2.20％～14.90％。平均值5.74％。从而揭示出其时两者的气候背景是不同的,前者是干旱寒冷气候作用下的风力的侵蚀、搬运与堆积的产物;而后者则与暖湿气候环境下萨拉乌苏河流域地处鄂尔多斯高原和黄土高原之间特殊的低洼地貌位置有关。气候暖湿,河湖沼泽发育、成土成壤作用增强,低洼的集水条件有利于CaCO3的聚集。3)导致米浪沟湾剖面CaCO3的多旋回相对稀散与聚集的根本原因可能是150 ka B.P.以来北半球冰期-间冰期气候波动影响下毛乌素沙漠冬夏季风的多次更迭所致。
ABSTRACT: This paper, with Milanggouwan stratigraphic section as a typical section of the Salawusu River Basin, explores the relation between CaCO3 content distribution and climate change since 150 ka B. P. and concludes that: 1) The low-high changes of CaCO3 content in the section has a remarkable corresponding relation with the sedimentary cycles of ancient aeolian sand and overlying fluviolacustrine facies or palaeosols. 2) CaCO3 distribution in aeolian sand is relatively meagre, ranging from 0. 8% - 7. 18%, or on an average 2. 50% but relatively enriches in the fluviolacustrine faceis and palaeosols, ranging from 2. 20% - 14. 9% , or on an average 5. 74%. This implies that they have different climatic backgrounds. The former was the product of erosion, transport and deposition by wind under arid and cold climatic conditions, whereas the latter was related to its special low-lying geomorphic position between the Ordos Plateau and Loess Plateau and warm-humid climatic environment. When the climatic became warm and humid, fluviolacustrine and swamp facies developed, soil-forming action strengthened, and low-lying catchment condition was favorable to CaCO3 accumulation. 3) The basic cause responsible for the multicycle of CaCO3 migration and accumulation in the Milanggouwan section may be the multiple alterations of winter and summer monsoons over the Mu Us Desert under the influences of climatic fluctuation of glacial and interglacial periods in the Northern Hemisphere since 150ka B. P. .
LUO Kai-li1,2, LI Bao-sheng1,2, ZHU Yi-zhi2, JIN He-ling3, ZHANG David Dian4, YAN Man-cun5, LI Hou-xin1, YAO Chun-xia1, ZHANG Yu-hong1f 1. Department of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, P. R. China
Contemporaneous with MIS3, the MGS3 segment of the Milanggouwan stratigraphic section in the Salawusu River Valley, Mu Us Desert, China contains fossil gastropods (terrestrial and freshwater snails) in strata 33LS, 35LS, 37FL and 39LS. Examination of these fossils revealed 11 species belonging to 8 families and 10 genera. They can be classified as: (1) assemblage of Gyraulus and Galba mainly consisting of Gyraulus convexiusculus, Gyraulus sibiricus, Galba pervia and Galba superegra Gredler, etc. (2) assemblage of Vallonia mainly consisting of terrestrial snails, such as Vallonia patens, Pupilla muscorum and Discus paupe, etc. Based on the dating results, and the living habits, living conditions, and geographic distribution of their extant species, we suggest that: the ages of 33LS, 35LS, 37FL, and 39LS are 26000, 29000, 33000 and 38000 a, respectively, corresponding well to the interstadial period in GRIP 4, 5, 6 and 10 in terms of chronology and climatic characters; 33LS, 35LS and 39LS represent very warm-humid periods, while 37FL represents a less warm-humid period; the four periods of climatic fluctuations recorded in MGS3 were related to the strong impact of the summer monsoon in East Asia in Mu Us Desert of China during the interstadial of MIS3 on a global climatic background.
