Nebkha Formation and Variations in Sediment Availability and Wind-energy Regime of the Western Hexi Corridor over the Past Several Decades

doi:10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2017.00022

JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (4): 611-620.DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2017.00022

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Nebkha Formation and Variations in Sediment Availability and Wind-energy Regime of the Western Hexi Corridor over the Past Several Decades

Lang Lili¹, Wang Xunming^1,2, Zhu Bingqi¹, Wang Xiangdong³, Hua Ting², Wang Guangtao², Li Hui², Zhang Caixia²

1. Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;
2. Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
3. College of Science, Qiqihar University, Qiqihar 161006, Heilongjiang, China

Received:2017-03-08 Revised:2017-04-05 Online:2017-07-20 Published:2017-07-20

Abstract

Abstract: Environments in arid and semiarid regions are extremely sensitive to climate changes.However,because of the absence of relatively high-resolved proxies,there still poorly understanding for the past environmental changes in these regions.In this paper,we investigate the environmental evolutions based on the evidence of multiple proxies (including the particle size distributions,carbonate contents,geochemical elements,and AMS¹⁴C dating results) from a nebkha that develops in the Huahai Basin,western Hexi Corridor,which has also been compared with meteorological observations,literature records,and desertification monitoring data.It indicates that the development of the nebkha is special in Huahai Basin.Although the continuously aeolian sedimentary sequence was disturbed by human activities between the mid-late 1960s and the early 1970s,it was then soon rebuilt and significantly enlarged due to the sufficient deposited material supply;and therefore,this nebkha sediments document high-resolution variations in regional environment condition.From the trends in contents of fine particles and carbonate as well as the values of Zr/Rb,there were sufficient sediment supply from the 1970s to the 1980s,and measured data indicated strong wind activities between 1970 and 1988,together with the rapid enlargement of the sampled nebkha.Afterwards,the ground surface was stable gradually and wind-energy regime changed to a large extent in this region.Above all,our results provide relatively high-resolution evidences on the variations in sediment availability and aeolian transport capability that occurred in this extremely arid area,which demonstrates the reliability of using nebkha sediments and proxies as indicators of past climatic and environmental changes.

Key words: Hexi Corridor, nebkha, sediment availability, wind regime, desertification

CLC Number:

P931.3

Lang Lili, Wang Xunming, Zhu Bingqi, Wang Xiangdong, Hua Ting, Wang Guangtao, Li Hui, Zhang Caixia. Nebkha Formation and Variations in Sediment Availability and Wind-energy Regime of the Western Hexi Corridor over the Past Several Decades[J]. JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH, 2017, 37(4): 611-620.

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