Luminescence dating of glacial deposits near the eastern Himalayan   syntaxis using different grain-size fractions

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.018

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	Luminescence dating of glacial deposits near the eastern Himalayan syntaxis using different grain-size fractions
	Hu, Gang ; Yi, Chao-Lu ; Zhang, Jia-Fu ; Liu, Jin-Hua ; Jiang, Tao
刊名	QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
	2015
关键词	Luminescence dating Partial bleaching Different grain size fractions Glacial sediments Southeastern Tibet OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE SOUTHEASTERN TIBETAN PLATEAU LATE QUATERNARY GLACIATIONS REGENERATIVE-DOSE PROTOCOL POLYMINERAL FINE GRAINS LATE PLEISTOCENE OSL SIGNALS ICE-AGE GLACIOFLUVIAL SEDIMENTS NORTHERN PAKISTAN
DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.018
英文摘要	Numerical dating of glacial deposits is important for understanding Quaternary glacial evolution. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating is one of the techniques widely used on such sediments. Owing to the short distances traveled before deposition, the incomplete bleaching of luminescence signals in glacial sediments may introduce serious dating problems vis-alpha-vis glacial and any associated sediments. Here, we report a comparison of OSL ages obtained from the fine (4-11 mu m) and medium (38 -63 mu m) grain size fractions of quartz extracted from glaciofluvial sediments and from glacial tills in the Basongcuo catchment near the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. Initially, four glacial stages were identified based on field observations of moraine distribution and geomorpho-stratigraphic relations. A total of 39 OSL samples were then collected from glaciofluvial sand layers or lenses and from till. Quartz grains in the fine (4-11 mu m) and medium (38-63 mu m) size fractions were extracted from each sample, and dated using the single-aliquot regeneration (SAR) protocol. The modern supraglacial. sediment sample was dated to similar to 0.2 (fine grain) to similar to 0.7 (medium grain) ka, suggesting that the sediment was not completely bleached on deposition. Contrary to previous experience suggesting that coarse grains are usually better bleached than fine grains prior to deposition, our results show that estimated OSL ages for fine grains are generally younger than those for medium grains. This suggests that the two fractions may have come from different sources and thus have different bleaching histories, and that fine-grained quartz may be more suitable for OSL dating of these materials. Applying the minimum age model to data from medium-grained quartz yields ages close to those obtained from fine-grained quartz, suggesting that both can be used for dating glacial advances. The OSL dates suggest that glaciers in the studied area advanced at 0.1 -1.3 ka, similar to 7.5 ka and 11-13 ka, and were furthest advanced between similar to 16 and similar to 30 ka. The timing of the local Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) is broadly consistent throughout the eastern and central Himalaya and frequent glacial advances after the LGM. All suggest that glaciers in the humid eastern Himalayan syntaxis are sensitive to global cooling. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.; National Natural Science Foundation of China [41271018, 41230523, 40971017, 41471006]; SCI(E); EI; ARTICLE; hugang@itpcas.ac.cn; 124-144; 124
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/416275]
专题	地球与空间科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hu, Gang,Yi, Chao-Lu,Zhang, Jia-Fu,et al. Luminescence dating of glacial deposits near the eastern Himalayan syntaxis using different grain-size fractions[J]. QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS,2015.
APA	Hu, Gang,Yi, Chao-Lu,Zhang, Jia-Fu,Liu, Jin-Hua,&Jiang, Tao.(2015).Luminescence dating of glacial deposits near the eastern Himalayan syntaxis using different grain-size fractions.QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS.
MLA	Hu, Gang,et al."Luminescence dating of glacial deposits near the eastern Himalayan syntaxis using different grain-size fractions".QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS (2015).