Paleoclimate change recorded in the red earth and brown-yellow sediment of Late Quaternary for northeastern part of Guangdong Province,south to the Nanling Mountains,China  

作　　者：LI BaoSheng WEN XiaoHaoi DAVID DianZhang QIU ShiFan DONG YOXiang LI ZhiWen DU ShuHuan OU XianJiao LI HouXin NIU DongFeng YANG Yi 

机构地区：[1]School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China [2]State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China [3]Department of Geography, University of Hongkong, Hongkong, China [4]School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China [5]Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China

出　　处：《Chinese Science Bulletin》2008年第24期3866-3875,共10页

基　　金：Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.40471139);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2004CB720206);the Special Fund of Scientific Research for Doctoral Subjects of Chinese Universities (Grant No. 20070574005);the RGC Grant of the HKSAR (HKU7243/04H)

摘　　要：The paleoenvironment indicated by the geochronology,major oxides——SiO2,Al2O3 and TOFE(Fe2O3 + FeO),and CIA(Chemical Index of Alteration) value of the red earth and brown-yellow silt primarily characterized by the Linjiang stratigraphic section,based on the geological investigation of Late Quaternary along the river banks of northeastern part of China's Guangdong Province,south to the Nanling Mountains,allow us to hypothesize that the red earth on the first terrace in northeastern part of Guangdong belongs to reticulated red clay developed in a hot-wet environment of the last interglacial period(132―73 ka BP),similar to the monsoon environment in the northern margin of modern tropical zone,while the overlying brown-yellow silt layer mainly accumulated in a monsoon environment of warm temperate zone in the last glacial period(73―11 ka BP),with the aeolian sand LJ3 representing an extreme period of worsening climate.Such a hypothesis corresponds well with predecessors' research on the paleoenvironment indicated by abundant fossils in both south and east to the Nanling Mountains.Hence,it follows that the bioclimatic zone did experience a large and rapid vicissitude in northeastern part of China's Guangdong Province,and even in the full extent of the region south to the Nanling Mountains from the last interglacial period to the last glacial period,with the red earth being replaced by the brown-yellow silty sediment,and even maybe with the Ailuropoda-Stegodon Fauna being replaced by the Penghu Fauna.This study may provide an important geological demonstration for the environmental response to global change in China's low latitudes on a 10 ka scale.The paleoenvironment indicated by the geochronology, major oxides SiO2, Al2O3 and TOFE （Fe2O3 ＋ FeO）, and CIA （Chemical Index of Alteration） value of the red earth and brown-yellow silt primarily characterized by the Linjiang stratigraphic section, based on the geological investigation of Late Quaternary along the river banks of northeastern part of China＇s Guangdong Province, south to the Nanling Mountains, allow us to hypothesize that the red earth on the first terrace in northeastern part of Guangdong belongs to reticulated red clay developed in a hot-wet environment of the last interglacial period （132-73 ka BP）, similar to the monsoon environment in the northern margin of modern tropical zone, while the overlying brown-yellow silt layer mainly accumulated in a monsoon environment of warm temperate zone in the last glacial period （73-11 ka BP）, with the aeolian sand LJ3 representing an extreme period of worsening climate. Such a hypothesis corresponds well with predecessors＇ research on the paleoenvironment indicated by abundant fossils in both south and east to the Nanling Mountains. Hence, it follows that the bioclimatic zone did experience a large and rapid vicissitude in northeastern part of China＇s Guangdong Province, and even in the full extent of the region south to the Nanling Mountains from the last interglacial period to the last glacial period, with the red earth being replaced by the brown-yellow silty sediment, and even maybe with the Ailuropoda-Stegodon Fauna being replaced by the Penghu Fauna. This study may provide an important geological demonstration for the environmental response to global change in China＇s low latitudes on a 10 ka scale.

关 键 词：中国 广东东北部 第四纪新生代 网状红色 粘土 褐黄色沉积物 

分 类 号：P5[天文地球—地质学]