The 'Old Red Sand' is a type of semicemented medium-fine sandy sediment that is red(10R_4/8) or brown red(2.5YR_4/8) in colour and is found in late Quaternary deposits. The sediments have distinctive character...The 'Old Red Sand' is a type of semicemented medium-fine sandy sediment that is red(10R_4/8) or brown red(2.5YR_4/8) in colour and is found in late Quaternary deposits. The sediments have distinctive characteristics and are a critical archive for understanding climatic changes in the coastal areas of East Asia. The ages of the late Quaternary aeolian sand dunes from Haitan Island in the coastal area of South China are still in debate. In this study, three sets of marine terraces were identified in the northern region of Haitan Island. Aeolian dune sands are well preserved on the top of these terraces. Quartz Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating and the distribution of the formation ages demonstrated that the palaeo-dunes are deposits from the middle-late period of the Late Pleistocene(Q_3^(2-3)). The period may be divided into three stages, 100-90 ka, 70-60 ka, and 40-20 ka, in which the palaeo-dunes of the first two stages are more widespread and were formed separately during a low-sea level period of the Marine Isotope Stages 5 b and 4. Several depositional palaeo-flood event records were preserved during the last stage due to the increasing gradient of mountain gullies formed during the Last Glacial Maximum.展开更多
Breakwaters can be used as artificial headlands in beach nourishment to mitigate coastal erosion. Longfengtou Beach, located on the southwest coast of Haitan Bay facing the Taiwan Strait on the northeast, suffers seve...Breakwaters can be used as artificial headlands in beach nourishment to mitigate coastal erosion. Longfengtou Beach, located on the southwest coast of Haitan Bay facing the Taiwan Strait on the northeast, suffers severe erosion, where the monsoon causes significant season hydrodynamic variations. Headland breakwaters are intended to be employed to mitigate coastal erosion. A 2D sediment transport model is established using MIKE21 based on current-wave coupling and calibrated by measured data. Summer and winter wave conditions are chosen as characteristic weak and strong waves respectively. The numerical results of suspended sediment concentration and seasonal morphological evolution are compared under the conditions with and without the headland breakwaters. Sediment transport in summer can be regarded as mainly determined by current field, while in winter wave effect is strong enough to change current field. The northern breakwater, nearly perpendicular to the ebb current direction, obstructs the currents and decreases velocity of the ebb currents, and confines the water carrying sediments within the protection area during the flood period. The southern breakwater also breaks the waves in advance and significantly reduces the hydrodynamic effects during the flood period and maintains high suspended sediment concentration in the protection area. In general, two headland breakwaters decrease the erosion near the beach and enlarge the deposition area, which play a significant role in prevention of sediment loss in nearshore area and mitigate coastal erosion.展开更多
福建海坛湾龙凤头海滩宽阔,沙粒细小.20世纪末,由于人工海堤等的修建,导致海滩侵蚀严重,干滩宽度迅速缩小.如何保护沙滩,防止进一步退化变得尤为重要.为解决海滩侵蚀问题,2011年开展了海坛湾沙滩养护一期试验工程,滩肩补沙后海滩侵蚀仍...福建海坛湾龙凤头海滩宽阔,沙粒细小.20世纪末,由于人工海堤等的修建,导致海滩侵蚀严重,干滩宽度迅速缩小.如何保护沙滩,防止进一步退化变得尤为重要.为解决海滩侵蚀问题,2011年开展了海坛湾沙滩养护一期试验工程,滩肩补沙后海滩侵蚀仍很严重,4个月后岸线平均后退11m,最大后退量31m.为解决此问题,提出采取滩肩补沙和实体工程结合的海滩养护方案.运用Generalized Model of Simulating Shoreline Change(GENESIS)建立了龙凤头海滩岸线演变模型,并通过海滩养护一期工程实测资料进行模型率定和验证,模拟值和实测值验证良好.采用验证后的模型,分别模拟了不同新工程方案对岸线演变的影响,并比较分析了方案实施后岸线的演变.结果表明,龙凤头海滩北侧和南侧各增加一个近岸防波堤对研究岸段起到保护作用最为明显,但岸线仍会受到一定程度的侵蚀,可以结合工程后期季节性补沙措施进行防护.展开更多
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants Nos. 41301012, 41771020 and U1405231)Natural Science Foundation of Fujian (Grant No. 2018R1034-5)Innovation Research Team Fund of Fujian Normal University (Grant No. IRTL1705)
文摘The 'Old Red Sand' is a type of semicemented medium-fine sandy sediment that is red(10R_4/8) or brown red(2.5YR_4/8) in colour and is found in late Quaternary deposits. The sediments have distinctive characteristics and are a critical archive for understanding climatic changes in the coastal areas of East Asia. The ages of the late Quaternary aeolian sand dunes from Haitan Island in the coastal area of South China are still in debate. In this study, three sets of marine terraces were identified in the northern region of Haitan Island. Aeolian dune sands are well preserved on the top of these terraces. Quartz Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating and the distribution of the formation ages demonstrated that the palaeo-dunes are deposits from the middle-late period of the Late Pleistocene(Q_3^(2-3)). The period may be divided into three stages, 100-90 ka, 70-60 ka, and 40-20 ka, in which the palaeo-dunes of the first two stages are more widespread and were formed separately during a low-sea level period of the Marine Isotope Stages 5 b and 4. Several depositional palaeo-flood event records were preserved during the last stage due to the increasing gradient of mountain gullies formed during the Last Glacial Maximum.
基金project supported by the Third Institute of Oceanography,State Oceanic Administrationpartly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41776098)
文摘Breakwaters can be used as artificial headlands in beach nourishment to mitigate coastal erosion. Longfengtou Beach, located on the southwest coast of Haitan Bay facing the Taiwan Strait on the northeast, suffers severe erosion, where the monsoon causes significant season hydrodynamic variations. Headland breakwaters are intended to be employed to mitigate coastal erosion. A 2D sediment transport model is established using MIKE21 based on current-wave coupling and calibrated by measured data. Summer and winter wave conditions are chosen as characteristic weak and strong waves respectively. The numerical results of suspended sediment concentration and seasonal morphological evolution are compared under the conditions with and without the headland breakwaters. Sediment transport in summer can be regarded as mainly determined by current field, while in winter wave effect is strong enough to change current field. The northern breakwater, nearly perpendicular to the ebb current direction, obstructs the currents and decreases velocity of the ebb currents, and confines the water carrying sediments within the protection area during the flood period. The southern breakwater also breaks the waves in advance and significantly reduces the hydrodynamic effects during the flood period and maintains high suspended sediment concentration in the protection area. In general, two headland breakwaters decrease the erosion near the beach and enlarge the deposition area, which play a significant role in prevention of sediment loss in nearshore area and mitigate coastal erosion.
文摘福建海坛湾龙凤头海滩宽阔,沙粒细小.20世纪末,由于人工海堤等的修建,导致海滩侵蚀严重,干滩宽度迅速缩小.如何保护沙滩,防止进一步退化变得尤为重要.为解决海滩侵蚀问题,2011年开展了海坛湾沙滩养护一期试验工程,滩肩补沙后海滩侵蚀仍很严重,4个月后岸线平均后退11m,最大后退量31m.为解决此问题,提出采取滩肩补沙和实体工程结合的海滩养护方案.运用Generalized Model of Simulating Shoreline Change(GENESIS)建立了龙凤头海滩岸线演变模型,并通过海滩养护一期工程实测资料进行模型率定和验证,模拟值和实测值验证良好.采用验证后的模型,分别模拟了不同新工程方案对岸线演变的影响,并比较分析了方案实施后岸线的演变.结果表明,龙凤头海滩北侧和南侧各增加一个近岸防波堤对研究岸段起到保护作用最为明显,但岸线仍会受到一定程度的侵蚀,可以结合工程后期季节性补沙措施进行防护.
