PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES RECORDED BY THE CALCRETES AT MIAOHE, YICHANG

XIAO Shangbin; CHANG Hong; LIU Weiguo; WEI Baohua

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1140.2014.02045

2014 Vol. 34, No. 2

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XIAO Shangbin, CHANG Hong, LIU Weiguo, WEI Baohua. PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES RECORDED BY THE CALCRETES AT MIAOHE, YICHANG[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2014, 34(2): 45-51. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1140.2014.02045

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XIAO Shangbin, CHANG Hong, LIU Weiguo, WEI Baohua. PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES RECORDED BY THE CALCRETES AT MIAOHE, YICHANG[J]. Marine Geology & Quaternary Geology, 2014, 34(2): 45-51. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1140.2014.02045

PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES RECORDED BY THE CALCRETES AT MIAOHE, YICHANG

1. China Three Gorges University, Yichang 443002, China;
2. Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Earth Surface Processes, Institute of Mountein Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041;
3. Wuhan Center of the China Geological Survey, Wuhan 443003, China;
4. State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710075, China

Received Date: 12 July 2013

Revised Date: 25 September 2013

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Two types of calcrete at Miaohe, Yichan, i.e., pedogenic calcrete and groundwater calcrete were studied in this paper. Calcite cements were separated from the pedogenic calcrete for ESR dating and δ13C and δ18O analysis. δ13C values of calcite cements are obviously lighter than the host sediments, and δ18O values of calcite cements slightly heavier than those of the host sediments. It's inferred that the palaeotemperature was 8~12℃, the mean annual rainfall was 760~770 mm and C4 plants accounted for~84% when these calcretes were formed in the glacial stages.
- calcrete /
- Quaternary environment /
- δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O /
- the Three Gorges

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