地学前缘 ›› 2022, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 156-167.DOI: 10.13745/j.esf.sf.2022.1.10

• 深海沉积与快速气候变化 • 上一篇    下一篇

全新世东地中海的陆源碎屑输入及其水文气候变化:海盆尺度地球化学分析

吴家望1,2,3(), 姚胜男1, Amalia FILIPPIDI2, 刘志飞3, Gert J. DE LANGE2,3   

  1. 1.中山大学 海洋科学学院, 广东 珠海 519082
    2.乌特勒支大学 地球科学系, 荷兰 乌特勒支 3508TA
    3.同济大学 海洋地质国家重点实验室, 上海 200092
  • 收稿日期:2021-09-15 修回日期:2021-12-15 出版日期:2022-07-25 发布日期:2022-07-28
  • 作者简介:吴家望(1987—),男,博士,副教授,海洋地球化学专业,主要从事海洋地质与古海洋学研究。E-mail: wujiaw5@mail.sysu.edu.cn; jwwu@tongji.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金项目(41806064);中国博士后科学基金特别资助项目(2019T120352);欧盟科学基金项目(EuroMARC-FP-004)

Terrigenous detrital inputs and hydroclimate changes in the Holocene eastern Mediterranean Sea: A basin-wide geochemical view

WU Jiawang1,2,3(), YAO Shengnan1, Amalia FILIPPIDI2, LIU Zhifei3, Gert J. DE LANGE2,3   

  1. 1. School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
    2. Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht 3508TA, The Netherlands
    3. State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
  • Received:2021-09-15 Revised:2021-12-15 Online:2022-07-25 Published:2022-07-28

摘要:

地中海位于非洲季风气候和欧洲温带气候的交界处,同时接受周边地区岩石性质和风化状况差异极大的碎屑物质,所以是研究地球表层水文循环的理想区域。前人的认识集中于撒哈拉风尘和尼罗河输入,往往忽视了其他的陆源碎屑沉积,尤其对不同水文气候条件下的潜在变化缺乏考虑。针对形成于全新世非洲湿润期的腐泥层S1页岩沉积,并结合采自岩心顶部的晚全新世/现代沉积物,文章从18个站位选取了30个样品开展碎屑组分的地球化学分析,通过在具有不同干湿环境背景的时间片段上开展盆地尺度的对比(约9.5~8.9 ka vs. 约1.7~0 ka),探讨全新世东地中海的陆源碎屑输入模式。Ti/Al、Zr/Al、Ca/Al、Y/Al都清晰显示了经向和纬向上的梯度变化,可用作撒哈拉风尘的可靠指标;这些碎屑元素之间的差异反映了北非风尘来源和传送路径的变化。这些风尘指标在南-北向上的一致变化指示了副热带高压与西风带的交互界限为36°N,该界限在全新世应稳定存在。与风尘相反,河流输入的指标值在早全新世时显著高于现代,并呈现不同的地理分布。K/Al具有西高东低、北高南低的分布特征,指示了地中海北部沿岸地区的河流输入。根据与Ti/Al、K/Al的差异,利用(Cr+Ni)/Al可较好地识别被增强的季风降雨所激活的北非古河流沉积。河流输入在早全新世时显著上升,但不同河流系统的影响范围差异很大,受制于源区水文气候、表层洋流搬运等因素。

关键词: 地中海, 全新世, 非洲湿润期, 腐泥层S1, 元素地球化学, 撒哈拉风尘, 古河流

Abstract:

The Mediterranean Sea lies at the interface between the African monsoon and the European temperate climate zones while receives from the surrounding continents significant amounts of lithogenic detritus with very different rock compositions and weathering regimes, making it an ideal area to study the Earth’s hydrological cycle. Previous works mostly focused on the Saharan dust and Nile discharge, but might have underestimated the supplies from other sources, especially overlooked the potential impact of paleo-rivers in the wider North-African margin. Focusing on the sapropel S1 layer deposited in the African Humid Period, combined with the present-day/Late-Holocene sediments collected from core tops, 30 samples from 18 core sites across the eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) were selected for elemental geochemical analysis. Comparing between two time slices (~9.5-8.9 ka vs. ~1.7-0 ka) having different hydroclimate backgrounds, this study permits a basin-wide detailed investigation of the terrigenous detrital inputs to EMS in the Holocene. Particularly, we aim to distinguish and characterize geochemically the various dust and riverine contributions. The Ti/Al, Zr/Al, Ca/Al, Y/Al ratios all showed longitude and latitude gradient variations, making them reliable indicators for Saharan dust; the differences between detrital elements likely reflect changes in the dust source and delivery routes originated from North Africa. Consistent north-south pattern in the dust proxies suggests a persistent interacting boundary of 36°N between the subtropical high-pressure belt and the temperate westerlies in the Holocene. Contrary to dust proxies, the riverine indicators were not only significantly higher in value for the Early Holocene than the present-day, but also exhibited different geographical patterns. The P/Al ratio showed west-east and north-south decreasing trends indicative of riverine inputs from the numerous small rivers along the coast of the northern Mediterranean Sea. Potential supply of North African paleo-rivers that were reactivated by intensified monsoon precipitation could be discerned based on the differences between the Ti/Al or K/Al and (Cr+Ni)/Al ratios. Taken together, the riverine inputs should have largely increased during the Early Holocene, while the delivery extents differed between the river systems, affected by specific hydroclimate mechanisms and the delivery of the surface currents.

Key words: Mediterranean, Holocene, African Humid Period, sapropel S1, elemental geochemistry, Saharan dust, paleo-river

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