Traceurs sédimentaires des variations du niveau marin et de la mousson sud-est asiatique depuis 450 ka en mer de Chine du Sud

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• 作者：Sé ; bastien Boulay ; Christophe Colin ; Alain Trentesaux
• 关键词：Palaeoclimate ; Southeast Asian monsoon ; South China Sea ; Sea-level variations ; Clay mineralogy ; Grain size ; End-member modelling
• 刊名：Comptes Rendus Geoscience
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：June 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：340
• 期：6
• 页码：367-378
• 全文大小：1039 K

文摘

In order to reconstruct the past variations of the Southeast Asian monsoon intensity and estimate the sedimentary system reactivity to climatic changes in Southeast Asia over the last 450 kyr, mineralogical and sedimentological analyses have been performed on the terrigenous fraction of the South China Sea sediment. End-member modelling coupled with grain size data discriminates three end-members that determine the nature and intensity of the main sediment transport vectors. Low sea-level stands are characterized by sediment reworking that allows transportation of a coarse end-member (20–40 μm) to the deep-basin. By contrast, the other end-members (4–6 μm; 9–13 μm) are controlled by the shoreline position (sea level) and/or by changes of the rivers capacity transport (monsoon). Finally, aeolian input to the northern margin of the South China Sea can be considered negligible compared to the massive fluvial input and the reworking of the sediments.