Milankovitch cycle identification of Denglouku Formation in Songliao Basin and its paleoclimate significance

LUO Liming; YU Manlin; LI Qi; WU Zhoufan; HUANG Yongjian

doi:10.19826/j.cnki.1009-3850.2023.08010

2025 Vol. 45, No. 1

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LUO Liming, YU Manlin, LI Qi, WU Zhoufan, HUANG Yongjian. 2025. Milankovitch cycle identification of Denglouku Formation in Songliao Basin and its paleoclimate significance. Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, 45(1): 112-119. doi: 10.19826/j.cnki.1009-3850.2023.08010

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LUO Liming, YU Manlin, LI Qi, WU Zhoufan, HUANG Yongjian. 2025. Milankovitch cycle identification of Denglouku Formation in Songliao Basin and its paleoclimate significance. Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, 45(1): 112-119. doi: 10.19826/j.cnki.1009-3850.2023.08010

Milankovitch cycle identification of Denglouku Formation in Songliao Basin and its paleoclimate significance

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School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
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School of Ocean Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China

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Corresponding author: HUANG Yongjian, huangyj@cugb.edu.cn

Received Date: 25 June 2023

Revised Date: 21 August 2023

Accepted Date: 29 December 2023

Publish Date: 20 March 2025

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Under the promotion of the Cretaceous continental scientific drilling project, the Songliao Basin has become one of the hotspots for the Cretaceous terrestrial paleoclimate research. Among these studies, the consistency and differences between the paleoclimate change of the Songliao Basin and coeval global climate change are currently the focus of attention. In this paper, the cores of the Denglouku Formation obtained from the continental scientific drilling of Well Songke-3 in the Songliao Basin were selected. The chemical weathering index Rb/Sr ratio was obtained through XRF scanning, and the time series analysis method was applied to study the cyclostratigraphy. The analysis results show that: (1) The variation in the chemical weathering index Rb/Sr ratio, as shown in the XRF scanning curve, indicates the process of the climate from humid to arid during the deposition of the Denglouku Formation. (2) The optimal deposition rate of the Denglouku Formation is about 14.43 cm/ka, which can be combined with the wavelength of the depth domain to identify the Milankovitch cycles preserved in the Denglouku Formation, including precession (20-19 ka), obliquity (45-39 ka), short eccentricity (130-100 ka), and long eccentricity (450-390 ka) signals of the climate cycle. (3) With the application of power decomposition analysis (PDA), it is shown that eccentricity and precession signals are dominant, while the obliquity signal is very weak in the Early Cretaceous Denglouku Formation. This is consistent with the global climate change record.
- Songliao Basin /
- Denglouku Formation /
- Milankovitch cycle /
- paleoclimate

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