The environmental changes during the Late Pleistocene were more obvious in the eastern China than in other areas at the same latitude, which either between northern and southern, or between land and sea of the eastern...The environmental changes during the Late Pleistocene were more obvious in the eastern China than in other areas at the same latitude, which either between northern and southern, or between land and sea of the eastern China were mostly non-synchronous. The transitional period prior to the last glaciation came about in the northern part of the eastern China about 115,000 yr. ago. The desert environments of the inland of the north China were developed both in the glacial maximum and in the warm interglacial period, but the loess accumulation mostly took place during the glacial period. The sand dunes and the periglacial solifluctions in the lower Changjiang (Yangtze) River region were formed during the last glacial period. The event of lowest surface temperature occurred at 98,000 yr. B.P. and 59,000 yr. B.P. in the northern part of the South China Sea but not during the full-glacial stage. The phenomena mentioned . above were the result of the following reasons that the paleo-environmental changes in展开更多
The South China Sea is the westernmost marginal sea in the west Pacific Ocean. On thebasis of the analyses of sedimentary components, biofossils, oxygen-carbon isotopes and theirdatings in four seafloor cores which we...The South China Sea is the westernmost marginal sea in the west Pacific Ocean. On thebasis of the analyses of sedimentary components, biofossils, oxygen-carbon isotopes and theirdatings in four seafloor cores which were collected from the deep sea plain to continentalslope in the northern South China Sea, the environmental variations were basically similarto other tropical ocean areas, and their cycle changes in about the ages of 40 ka and 20 kawere more apparent since the late Pleistocene. During the warm climates, the depositionrate on the continental slope was about 2.6 times as rapid as on the deep sea plain margin.The seafloor in the deep sea plain was below the CaCO<sub>3</sub> compensation depth. During thecold periods, however, the deposition rate on the deep sea plain margin was slightly quickerthan on the continental slope due to the sea level reduction on a larger scale and moresupply of the terrigenous clastics.展开更多
文摘The environmental changes during the Late Pleistocene were more obvious in the eastern China than in other areas at the same latitude, which either between northern and southern, or between land and sea of the eastern China were mostly non-synchronous. The transitional period prior to the last glaciation came about in the northern part of the eastern China about 115,000 yr. ago. The desert environments of the inland of the north China were developed both in the glacial maximum and in the warm interglacial period, but the loess accumulation mostly took place during the glacial period. The sand dunes and the periglacial solifluctions in the lower Changjiang (Yangtze) River region were formed during the last glacial period. The event of lowest surface temperature occurred at 98,000 yr. B.P. and 59,000 yr. B.P. in the northern part of the South China Sea but not during the full-glacial stage. The phenomena mentioned . above were the result of the following reasons that the paleo-environmental changes in
文摘The South China Sea is the westernmost marginal sea in the west Pacific Ocean. On thebasis of the analyses of sedimentary components, biofossils, oxygen-carbon isotopes and theirdatings in four seafloor cores which were collected from the deep sea plain to continentalslope in the northern South China Sea, the environmental variations were basically similarto other tropical ocean areas, and their cycle changes in about the ages of 40 ka and 20 kawere more apparent since the late Pleistocene. During the warm climates, the depositionrate on the continental slope was about 2.6 times as rapid as on the deep sea plain margin.The seafloor in the deep sea plain was below the CaCO<sub>3</sub> compensation depth. During thecold periods, however, the deposition rate on the deep sea plain margin was slightly quickerthan on the continental slope due to the sea level reduction on a larger scale and moresupply of the terrigenous clastics.
