Provenance of sediments deposited at paleolake San Felipe, western Sonora Desert: Implications to regimes of summer and winter precipitation during last 50聽cal聽kyr BP

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• 作者：P.D. Roy^a ; ^{p_debajyotiroy@yahoo.com} ; ^{roy@geologia.unam.mx} ; M. Caballero^b ; S. Lozano^a ; O. Morton^b ; R. Lozano^a ; M.P. Jonathan^c ; J.L. Sá ; nchez^a ; M.C. Mací ; as^a
• 关键词：Geochemistry ; Pleistocene&ndash ; Holocene ; Provenance ; Rainfall regime ; Rare earth element ; Sonora Desert
• 刊名：Journal of Arid Environments
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：93_01401963
• 类别：ear
• 出版时间：June, 2012
• 卷：81
• 期：Complete
• 页码：47-58
• 文件大小：1298 K

摘要

Rare earth element, major and trace element and mineralogy in the sediments representing last 50聽cal聽kyr BP from the summer precipitation fed paleolake San Felipe identify the different association of minerals and selective transportation of different grain size fractions and relate them to the variation in pluvial discharge into the basin as well as aeolian activities in the western Sonora Desert. Period of lower pluvial discharge during 14-48聽cal聽kyr BP is contemporary to the regime of dominant winter storms in the region. Transportation of coarser quartz and plagioclase during 40-48聽cal聽kyr BP and dominant finer fractions during 14-40聽cal聽kyr BP possibly mirror the variation in the frequency of winter storms. During 3-14聽cal聽kyr BP, higher catchment erosion (sedimentation increased 4-12 times) and transportation of REE bearing heavy minerals into the basin indicate higher pluvial discharge. We relate this period to a regime of dominant summer precipitation associated with the North American Monsoon and tropical cyclones. Geochemical and mineralogical signatures of the sediments deposited during ca. 8, 12-13 and >48聽cal聽kyr BP suggest selective mobilization of quartz and plagioclase from the surrounding sand dunes by the aeolian processes.