中原地区早中全新世气候变化的高分辨率泥炭沉积记录研究

全新世 泥炭 古气候 环境事件 季风演化
李开封 2016-01 项目
The Central Plains is the core area of civilized origin of China, which is across the northern subtropical and warm-temperate monsoon climate zone in East China and is sensitive to global changes. But the area has always been lack of high-resolution studies on environmental evolution during the Holocene. Pre-study of the project found that peat deposits in the Huixian County of northern Central Plains is continuous and natural sediment in the early-mid Holocene, and which is satisfactory materials for the study of high-resolution environmental changes for providing good information on past climate and regional environmental evolution. So in this project, the peat deposits from the Huixian County are chosen as study materials, and the exact age frame is established using AMS 14C dating. Then the high-resolution climate change sequence during the early-middle Holocene is reconstructed in the Central Plains through high-resolution multi-proxy records including pollen, total organic carbon, total nitrogen, organic carbon isotope, grain size and magnetic susceptibility. And the chronology, changing process, environmental features and regional characteristics of main climatic events during the early-middle Holocene are also identified. At last, the above results are contrasted to other high-resolution records, environmental archaeology and simulation results to probe into mechanism of environmental evolution and abrupt climate events during the early-middle Holocene in the Central Plains, to provide basic information for the studies on regional responses to global changes in monsoon region of east China and scientific basis to climate prediction, also to lay the foundation for the study of regional Neolithic human-land relationship.
中原地区为中华文明起源的核心区域,地跨我国东部亚热带和暖温带季风区,对全球变化反应敏感。但一直缺少全新世以来的高分辨率环境演变研究成果。本项目前期预研究发现中原地区北部辉县境内的泥炭沉积为早中全新世连续的自然沉积记录,是进行全新世高分辨率环境演变研究的良好材料。本项目拟以辉县泥炭沉积为研究材料,利用AMS14C测年建立高精度年代框架;在沉积学分析基础上,以孢粉、TOC/TN、有机碳同位素、粒度和磁化率等进行综合分析,重建中原地区早中全新世高分辨率气候环境演变序列,辨识并重点探讨中原地区早中全新世主要气候事件的年代、变化过程、环境特征及区域性特点;并与其它高分辨率沉积记录、环境考古和气候模拟等结果对比,探讨中原地区早中全新世环境演变与气候事件的区域响应机制,为我国东部季风区全球变化区域响应的沉积记录研究提供基础资料,为未来气候变化预测提供科学依据,并为区域新石器时代人地关系研究奠定基础。