| Contrasting Sensitivity of Weathering Proxies to Quaternary Climate and Sea-Level Fluctuations on the Southern Slope of the South China Sea | |
| Zhong, Yi1,2,3,4; Wilson, David J.5; Liu, Jiabo1,3,4; Wan, Shiming6; Bao, Rui7; Liu, Jianxing8; Zhang, Yanan1; Wang, Xuesong2; Liu, Yuanhao1; Liu, Xiaoyu1; Zhao, Ying1; Li, Shiying9; Liu, Qingsong1,3,4 | |
| 2021-12-28 | |
| Source Publication | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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| ISSN | 0094-8276 |
| Volume | 48Issue:24Pages:13 |
| Corresponding Author | Liu, Qingsong(qsliu@sustech.edu.cn) |
| Abstract | Tropical marginal seas host important sedimentary archives that may be exploited to reveal past changes in continental erosion, chemical weathering, and ocean dynamics. However, these records can be challenging to interpret due to the complex interactions between climate and particulate transport across ocean margins. For the southern South China Sea over the last 90 Kyr, we observe a contrasting temporal relationship between the deposition of clay minerals and magnetic minerals, which were associated with two different hydrodynamic modes. Fine-grained clay minerals can be carried in suspension by ocean currents, leading to a rapid response to regional climate-driven inputs. In contrast, changes in magnetic mineralogy were linked to glacial-interglacial sea level variability, from which we infer a control by bedload transport and resuspension. Overall, this study indicates that the transfer pathways and mechanisms imparted by varying hydrodynamic conditions exert a substantial influence on the distribution of terrigenous material in continental margin sediments. Plain Language Summary Sediments that accumulate in the ocean along continental margins contain the minerals that were eroded and transported by rivers on the nearby land masses. Past changes in the composition of such sediments can be used to reconstruct the history of physical erosion and chemical weathering on the continents, but can also be affected by ocean dynamics over orbital and millennial timescales. Here, clay mineralogy, sediment grain size, and rock magnetic signatures are measured in a core from the continental slope of the southern South China Sea, spanning the last 90 thousand years. Differences between the clay mineral and magnetic records, which are linked to finer and coarser sediment fractions respectively, indicate that specific mechanisms and timescales influenced sediment transport to the core site. This depositional framework must be considered when interpreting the timing of changes in weathering and erosion proxies hosted in sediment records from marginal seas. Specifically, fine-grained clay minerals may reveal a rapid response to continental weathering changes, whereas the magnetic records are influenced by the transport of denser coarser-grained minerals under the influence of sea level change. In addition, this framework could potentially serve as an indicator of past sea level change on wide continental shelves. |
| DOI | 10.1029/2021GL096433 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| Funding Project | National Program on National Natural Science Foundation of China[41806063] ; National Program on National Natural Science Foundation of China[41874078] ; National Program on National Natural Science Foundation of China[41976065] ; Laboratory for Marine Geology, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology[MGQNLM201818] ; 2020 Research Program of Sanya Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City[SKJC2020-01-012] ; Shenzhen Science and Technology Program[KQTD20170810111725321] ; China Postdoctoral Science Foundation[2020M682770] ; NERC independent research fellowship[NE/T011440/1] |
| WOS Research Area | Geology |
| WOS Subject | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
| WOS ID | WOS:000735897000070 |
| Publisher | AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.qdio.ac.cn/handle/337002/177621 |
| Collection | 海洋地质与环境重点实验室 |
| Corresponding Author | Liu, Qingsong |
| Affiliation | 1.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Ctr Marine Magnetism CM2, Dept Ocean Sci & Engn, Shenzhen, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Ocean & Marginal Sea Geol, South China Sea Inst Oceanol, Guangzhou, Peoples R China 3.Qingdao Natl Oceanog Lab Marine Sci & Technol, Lab Marine Geol, Qingdao, Peoples R China 4.Southern Marine Sci & Engn Guangdong Lab Guangzho, Guangzhou, Peoples R China 5.Univ London, Inst Earth & Planetary Sci, Univ Coll London & Birkbeck, London, England 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Oceanol, Key Lab Marine Geol & Environm, Qingdao, Peoples R China 7.Ocean Univ China, Minist Educ, Inst Adv Ocean Studies, Key Lab Marine Chem Theory & Technol, Qingdao, Peoples R China 8.First Inst Oceanog, Key Lab Marine Sedimentol & Environm Geol, Minist Nat Resources MNR, Qingdao, Peoples R China 9.Guangdong Marine Geol Survey, Guangzhou, Peoples R China |
| First Author Affilication | Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Zhong, Yi,Wilson, David J.,Liu, Jiabo,et al. Contrasting Sensitivity of Weathering Proxies to Quaternary Climate and Sea-Level Fluctuations on the Southern Slope of the South China Sea[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2021,48(24):13. |
| APA | Zhong, Yi.,Wilson, David J..,Liu, Jiabo.,Wan, Shiming.,Bao, Rui.,...&Liu, Qingsong.(2021).Contrasting Sensitivity of Weathering Proxies to Quaternary Climate and Sea-Level Fluctuations on the Southern Slope of the South China Sea.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,48(24),13. |
| MLA | Zhong, Yi,et al."Contrasting Sensitivity of Weathering Proxies to Quaternary Climate and Sea-Level Fluctuations on the Southern Slope of the South China Sea".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 48.24(2021):13. |
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