氷期-間氷期スケールおよびMillennialスケールの気候変動の研究 : 同位体地球化学的・地球物理学的手法によるアプローチ(2002年度日本地球化学会奨励賞受賞記念論文)
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Determining the timing and magnitude of the past global environmental changes are the key to understand the Earth's climate systems. Combined geochemical and geophysical analyses for geological samples that contained sea-level changes, ocean environment, and cryospheric environmental changes have been conducted. In this paper, I present some results we obtained using multi-proxy approaches to understand the last ice age climate history. Sea-level changes, at locations far away from former ice sheets (so called far-field sites), are relatively immune from isostatic effects: expressed as ice volume equivalent sea-level (ESL), they relate to variations in ice volume. The tectonically stable North Western Australian continental shelf, and the tectonically uplifting Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea (HP) were examined to construct ESL for the past 50,000 years. Sedimentological, micropaleontological and radiocarbon (^<14>C) analyses of gravity-core samples, from the North Western Australian shelf, show details of the ESL during the LGM and timing of the termination of LGM, which appears to have been in two stages. During the LGM, maximum ESL occurred at a depth of ca. - 135 m and relatively constant. The end of LGM, at 19,000 years ago, marks the start of major melting. These results are in excellent agreement with previously reported observation from Barbados corals. After the LGM, the melting history of the global ice sheets was reconstructed using reported far-field sealevel observations combined with the Glacio-hydro-isostatic modeling. Good coherence was found and we reached the conclusions as (i) The maximum global ice volume (ie. LGM) was marked between ca. 30,000 years ago to 19,000 years ago. (ii) The sea-level rise after the LGM was paced as the rate of ca. 1.5 cm/yr between 16 cal ka (× 1000 calendar years ago) to 12.5 cal ka and again from 11.5 cal ka and 9 cal ka. During the Younger Dryas, little change in volume of global ice was observed, (iii) The initial melting rate of the ice after the LGM was originally high in 500 years followed by about 2,500 years of a comparatively slow melting period, (iv) The beginning of the LGM was characterized as rapid sea-level fall of about 50 m occurring in a few thousand years. For the pre-LGM climate change, uranium series and radiocarbon ages were measured in corals from the uplifted coral terraces of HP, to provide a detailed history of climate change. Rapid sea-level changes (10-15 m) were found and they appear to be synchronous with Heinrich events and concentrations of ice-rafted debris found in North and South Atlantic deep sea cores. Both U-series nuclides as well as ^<14>C measurements revealed the time sequence of events: An initial sea-level high is followed by a large increase in atmospheric radiocarbon as the sea-level subside. Over 3,000 years to 4,000 years the atmospheric radiocarbon drops to below present ambient levels. This cycle bears a close resemblance to ice-calving episodes of Dansgaard-Oeschger and Bond cycles and the slow-down or complete interruption of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. The increases in the atmospheric radiocarbon levels are attributed to the cessation of the North Atlantic circulation. The measured initial ^<234>U/^<238>U ratio of last glacial period corals from HP, when compared with previously published data for the Holocene and Last Interglacial, appears to be about 1% lower. This suggests the necessity of ^<234>U cycle model in the surface ocean. The equatorial ocean plays an important role to drow the detail picture of the past climate changes. Sediment cores recovered from Eastern Equatorial Pacific (EEP) were used for δ^<18>O, micropaleontological, ^<14>C and sedimentological analyses to reconstruct the paleo SST in the EEP region. The area had strong meriodinal gradient which characterized as La Nina like condition and the strong linkages to the other paleo-archives such as glacial moraines indicated stronger Choco jet in the northern Andes during the last glacial. The cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN) exposure history method is undergoing major developments in analytical theoretical and applied areas. Close correlation between northern and southern ice sheets melting history during the last glacial was found using CRN dating method. The volume of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, at least the area of the Enderby Land and the Dronning Maud Land, was reduced and increased rapidly during the last ice age. To obtain finer scale climate information, in-situ produced ^<14>C is the powerful tool to attack this type of scientific problem. Only 2 laboratories in the world have been reported successful extraction of the ^<14>C from terrestrial quartz and I introduce briefly about the advantages of "multi-CRN" technique including in-situ produced ^<14>C to understand palaeoenvironments.
- 日本地球化学会の論文
- 2004-08-20
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横山 祐典
東京大学大学院理学系研究科地球惑星科学専攻地球惑星システム科学大講座
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横山 祐典
東京大学大学院理学系研究科
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横山 祐典
東京大学海洋研究所:東京大学大学院理学系研究科地球惑星科学専攻:独立行政法人海洋研究開発機構海洋・極限環境生物圏領域
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横山 祐典
東京大学大気海洋研究所海洋底科学部門
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横山 祐典
熊本大学理学部
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横山 祐典
東京大学海洋研究所
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