Advances in Earth Science ›› 2007, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (10): 1012-1018. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2007.10.1012

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Sedimentary Characteristic of Terrigenous Clast of Site MD05-2905 in the Northeastern Part of South China 

YANG Wen-guang, ZHENG Hong-bo, WANG Ke,XIE Xin, CHEN Guo-cheng,MEI Xi   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
  • Received:2007-09-02 Revised:2007-09-07 Online:2007-10-15 Published:2007-10-10

YANG Wen-guang, ZHENG Hong-bo, WANG Ke,XIE Xin, CHEN Guo-cheng,MEI Xi. Sedimentary Characteristic of Terrigenous Clast of Site MD05-2905 in the Northeastern Part of South China [J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2007, 22(10): 1012-1018.

Sediments with high sedimentation rate at Site MD05-2905 in the northern part of the South China Sea provide unique materials for a high-resolution study on paleoenvironment. Based on precision dating of AMS14C, grain size analysis of terrigenous clast at Site MD05-2905 is studied after removing organic matter, biological carbonate and biogenic opal. The results show that 15.5~63.5μm, coarse grain size ingredients,may indicate the East Asian winter monsoon changes. And that 2 ~ 9μm,fine grain size ingredients,may be used as a proxy of evolution of the East Asian summer monsoon. The results of grain size analysis, which suggest the East Asian monsoon intensity, revealed that a winter monsoon dominated glacial regime and a summer monsoon dominated Holocene regime, and that the summer monsoon increased gradually,experienced several abrupt change events and reached to the culmination in the early Holocene(8 500~11 200 ka BP) after 36 ka. This, with control by precession periodicity, may be related with the amount of solar radiation at the highest stage which needs further study.

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