Multi-tracer study of continental erosion and sediment transport to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden during the last 20 ka

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Rojas, Virginia P.¹  Meynadier, Laure¹  Colin, Christophe²  Bassinot, Franck³  Valet, Jean-Pierre¹  Miska, Serge² 

[1] Univ Paris Diderot, Inst Phys Globe Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cite, UMR 7154,CNRS, 1 Rue Jussieu, FR-75238 Paris 05, France

[2] Univ Paris Saclay, Univ Paris Sud, CNRS, Lab Geosci Paris Sud GEOPS,UMR 8148, Baiment 504, F-91405 Orsay, France

[3] UVSQ, CNRS, CEA, Lab Sci Climat & Environm, Bat 12,Ave Terrasse, F-91198 Gif Sur Yvette, France

关键词: Radiogenic isotopes;    Clay mineralogy;    Siliciclastic grain-size;    Red Sea;    Gulf of Aden;    Last glacial period;    African humid period;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.02.033

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Mineralogical compositions and grain-size distributions combined with Sr-87/Sr-86 and epsilon(Nd) values of the detrital fraction were studied on cores recovered from the Gulf of Aden (MD92-1002) and the Red Sea (MD92-1008) basins in order to document past changes in Indian monsoon and northwesterly winds during the last glacial-interglacial transition (the last 20 ka), encompassing the African Humid Period (AHP). The ENd vs. Sr-87/Sr-86 plot indicates that sediments result from the mixing of two main sedimentary sources corresponding to the Afar volcanic rocks in Ethiopia and to the Arabian-Nubian Shield. Variations of sediment isotopic and mineralogical composition point to a diminution of the volcanic source contribution during the last deglaciation. Changes of mineral-accumulation rates and grain-size distributions denote a decline in the aridity of the source regions during the Holocene, particularly of the Afar volcanic region. In this area, the reduction of detrital supply, from 15 cal ka BP, can be explained by an increase of precipitations during the AHP, which resulted in an expansion of the vegetation cover and lake extensions in East Africa. In the Arabian Peninsula, precipitations were confined to the south, allowing sediments to be transported even during the Holocene. Our data suggest that the southwest monsoon was not the main carrier of aeolian sediments to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden basins, but the Northwesterlies. In the Red Sea, the isotopic and mineralogical tracers reveal a contribution from Saharan dust between 16 and 12 cal ka BP, transported from the Nile catchment after aridification during Heinrich event 1. (C)2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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