川西高原位于青藏高原的东南边缘,气候主要受印度洋季风、高原季风的影响。广泛分布于川西高原的黄土-古土壤序列是高原周缘地区连续的古气候记录类型之一,记录了上述环流系统的演化过程及其与青藏高原阶段性演化的关系,对探讨高原隆升的环境响应具有重要意义。对川西甘孜地区甘孜-A剖面进行了系统的磁性地层学研究。结果表明,B/M界线出现在L7的底部,并且在剖面下部出现了松山负向期的贾拉米洛正向极性亚带。以古地磁界限点作为时间控制点外推该剖面典型风尘沉积的底界年龄约为1.16 Ma BP。
The West Sichuan Plateau is located in the southeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau, where the climate is mainly influenced by the Indian southwest summer monsoon and the Tibetan Plateau monsoon. In this study, detailed geochemical analysis has been carried out on Ganzisi loess-paleosol sequence in Ganzê County of western Sichuan Province. The results indicate that Ganzê loess and paleosol have experienced the incipient stage of chemical weathering in dust source regions, characterized by the decomposition of plagioclase which caused the depletion of mobile elements Na and Ca. The post-depositional chemical weathering is characterized by carbonate dissolution and oxidation of Fe2+. The variations of some geochemical indexes (such as CIA values, Na/K and Fe2+/ Fe3+ ratios) in Ganzisi loess-paleosol sequence indicate a gradually decreased chemical weathering intensity in the dust source regions and deposition areas since 1.15 Ma BP consistent with the general increase of global ice volume, reflecting that the arid trend since 1.15 Ma BP in the southeast Tibetan Plateau is a regional response to the global climate change. The geochemical indexes in this section also reveal an obvious drying step occurred at about 250 ka BP in this region. We interpret this drying step as a result of decreased influence of the Indian southwest summer monsoon. This decrease in monsoon moisture is probably attributable to the uplift of the southeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau at about 250 ka BP.
