Sporepollen records of environmental change on south coast plain of Laizhou Bay since the Late Pleistocene
Liu Enfeng Zhang Zulu Shen Ji
1 Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008,Jiangsu
2 Geography Department of Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014,Shandong
3 Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100039
The south coast of Laizhou Bay is one of the most typical areas of saltwater intrusion, which has a close relation with the environmental evolution since the Late Pleistocene This paper deals mainly with the systematic palynological and sedimentologic studies on 25 samples since the Late Pleistocene from a 29 m column core A1 According to the sporepollen diagram, 7 assemblage zones have been distinguished, and the paleovegetation and paleoclimatic fluctuations are discussed There were three warm and wet periods since 120 ka BP, that is 85~76 ka BP, 50~24 ka BP and 10~4 ka BP, coeval to Yangkou seawater transgression, Guangrao seawater transgression and Kenli seawater transgression respectively The depositional types were paralic swamp or lake during these periods, and the main vegetational types were coastal steppes with deciduous broadleaved forest or needlebroad leaved mixed forest Two cold and dry periods were 76~50 ka BP and 24~10 ka P, coeval to early Dali glacial epoch and late Dali glacial epoch, which were dominated by continental environments. The main vegetational types were needleleaved forest steppe and needleleaved forest arid steppe or hungriness steppe The environmental change stages based on sporepollen records on south coast of the Laizhou Bay since the Late Pleistocene are consistent with global climate events as well as the environmental change stages around the Bohai Sea
About author: Liu Enfeng, male, born in 1976, is a candidate for PhD degree in Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is engaged in sedimentology and geochemistry
Cite this article:
. Sporepollen records of environmental change on south coast plain of Laizhou Bay since the Late Pleistocene[J]. JOURNAL OF PALAEOGEOGRAPHY, 2004, 6(1): 78-84.
. Sporepollen records of environmental change on south coast plain of Laizhou Bay since the Late Pleistocene[J]. JOPC, 2004, 6(1): 78-84.