Pliocene charcoals from Shanxi Province of China and their application to studies of prehistoric wildfires  

作　　者：CHENG YeMing JIANG XiaoMei LI ChengSen WANG YuFei 

机构地区：[1]Department of Stratigraphy and Paleontology, Geological Museum of China, Beijing 100034, China [2]Research Institute of Wood Industry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China [3]State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China

出　　处：《Science China Earth Sciences》2011年第4期509-518,共10页中国科学（地球科学英文版）

基　　金：supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.30770148,30990241,30530050,39770046 and 41072022)

摘　　要：Charcoals collected from the middle-late Pliocene sediments of the Taigu Basin,Shanxi Province,China,have been identified as Ulmus sp.(Ulmaceae),Prunus sp.,Maloidoxylon sp.(Rosaceae),and Maclura sp.(Moraceae).These taxa,along with the previously known fossils,indicate the occurrence of temperate climate and local wildfire at that time.Charcoals of trees and/or shrubs and the morphological changes of these charcoals demonstrate that crown fires and surface fires occurred in the Taigu Basin during the middle-late Pliocene.Charcoals collected from the middle-late Pliocene sediments of the Taigu Basin, Shanxi Province, China, have been identified as Ulmus sp. （Ulmaceae）, Prunus sp., Maloidoxylon sp. （Rosaceae）, and Maclura sp. （Moraceae）. These taxa, along with the previously known fossils, indicate the occurrence of temperate climate and local wildfire at that time. Charcoals of trees and/or shrubs and the morphological changes of these charcoals demonstrate that crown fires and surface fires occurred in the Taigu Basin during the middle-late Pliocene.

关 键 词：Charcoal Uimus PRUNUS Maioidoxylon Maclura WILDFIRE PLIOCENE China 

分 类 号：P534.622[天文地球—古生物学与地层学] TQ351.277[天文地球—地质学]