Environmental evolution and its driving mechanisms of southeastern Beibu Gulf since the Last glacial period

LIANG Lei; XU Guoqiang; HUANG Wuxuan; LIANG Dingyong; LI Sunxiong; HAO Qiang; HUANG Rong

doi:10.19826/j.cnki.1009-3850.2021.09001

2023 Vol. 43, No. 4

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LIANG Lei, XU Guoqiang, HUANG Wuxuan, LIANG Dingyong, LI Sunxiong, HAO Qiang, HUANG Rong. 2023. Environmental evolution and its driving mechanisms of southeastern Beibu Gulf since the Last glacial period. Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, 43(4): 702-711. doi: 10.19826/j.cnki.1009-3850.2021.09001

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LIANG Lei, XU Guoqiang, HUANG Wuxuan, LIANG Dingyong, LI Sunxiong, HAO Qiang, HUANG Rong. 2023. Environmental evolution and its driving mechanisms of southeastern Beibu Gulf since the Last glacial period. Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, 43(4): 702-711. doi: 10.19826/j.cnki.1009-3850.2021.09001

Environmental evolution and its driving mechanisms of southeastern Beibu Gulf since the Last glacial period

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Comprehensive Geologic Survey of Hainan Province, Haikou 570206, China
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Key Laboratory of Marine Geological Resources and Environment, Haikou 570206, China
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Geologic Survey of Hainan Province, Haikou 570206, China
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The Engineering & Technical College of Chengdu University of Technology, Leshan 614000, China

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Corresponding author: XU Guoqiang, 617788576@qq.com

Received Date: 18 June 2021

Revised Date: 17 September 2021

Publish Date: 31 December 2023

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The stratigraphic structure, the geochemistry of major and trace elements, and the composition of clay minerals and the crystallographic characteristics have been analyzed by single-channel shallow seismic, ICP-MS, EDS, and XRD. The climate evolution and its driving mechanisms since the last interglacial period in the southeastern Beibu Gulf have been accurately characterized. The variation of indices shows that the provenance supply of the northwest South China Sea has been controlled by climate and sea level changes since 75 thousand years (75 ka) ago. In the late Pleistocene, the Heinrich event and the differential uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau caused the East Asian monsoon, especially the winter monsoon, to gradually increase at 56 ka, 41 ka, and 28 ka. Since the Holocene (11.5 ka ago), the southeastern part of the Beibu Gulf has experienced several drying-humid warming processes, which gradually evolved into the current climate stage.
- clay mineral /
- East Asian monsoon /
- Pleistocene /
- South China Sea

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