Pliocene palaeoclimate off SE Africa: Insights from IODP Expedition 361

非洲东南部的上新世古气候：IODP 361 号探险队的见解

基本信息

批准号：
NE/N020286/1
负责人：
Caroline Lear
金额：
$ 7.21万
依托单位：
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FN020286%2F1
关键词：
Pliocene palaeoclimate off SE Africa

项目摘要

It has been suggested that East Africa has undergone strong aridification between 3-5 million years ago as a consequence of changes in the source water distribution through the Indonesian seaway into the Indian Ocean [deMenocal, 1995; Cane and Molnar, 2001]. Results from an ocean circulation model showed that the northward displacement of New Guinea, about 5 Myr ago, may have switched the source of flow through Indonesia from warm South Pacifc to relatively cold North Pacifc waters. In the modern climate there is a strong link between east African rainfall and Indian Ocean SST, with warmer temperatures associated with more rain [Goddard and Graham, 1999]. Assuming that the modern ocean circulation system worked in a similar way in the Pliocene, the consequence of a tectonically driven northward move of New Guinea would have caused a reduction in sea surface temperatures in the Indian Ocean ultimately leading to reduced rainfall over eastern Africa. Why is it important to study climate changes in East/southeast Africa over that time period? We all come from Africa. We know that major steps in the evolution of African hominids and the emergence of the genus Homo in East Africa occurred in the Pliocene [Bobe and Behrensmeyer, 2004]. These developments seem to fall into times of major global and regional climatic changes especially with shifts to more arid, open environmental conditions in Africa near 2.8 Ma [deMenocal, 1995]. The change from humid to more arid conditions in East Africa has been linked mainly to remote forcing by cold North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures associated with the onset of Northern Hemisphere glacial cycles[deMenocal, 1995]. Here, however, we want to test if instead a cooling in the southwest Indian Ocean temperature due to a change of water through the archipelago of Indonesia drove changes in East and southeast Africa rainfall variability.

有人认为，由于通过印度尼西亚海道进入印度洋的水源分布发生变化，东非在 3-500 万年前经历了强烈的干旱化[deMenocal，1995；坎恩和莫尔纳，2001]。海洋环流模型的结果显示，大约 5 密尔前，新几内亚的向北位移可能已将流经印度尼西亚的水流来源从温暖的南太平洋水域转移到相对寒冷的北太平洋水域。在现代气候中，东非降雨量与印度洋海表温度之间存在密切联系，气温升高与降雨量增加有关[Goddard 和 Graham，1999]。假设现代海洋环流系统在上新世以类似的方式运作，那么新几内亚构造驱动的北移将导致印度洋海面温度下降，最终导致东非降雨量减少。为什么研究该时期东非/东南非的气候变化很重要？我们都来自非洲。我们知道，非洲原始人类进化的主要步骤以及东非人属的出现发生在上新世[Bobe and Behrensmeyer, 2004]。这些发展似乎正值全球和区域气候发生重大变化的时期，特别是在 2.8 Ma 左右非洲转向更加干旱、开放的环境条件 [deMenocal, 1995]。东非从潮湿到更干旱的条件的变化主要与北半球冰川周期开始相关的北大西洋寒冷海面温度的远程强迫有关[deMenocal, 1995]。然而，在这里，我们想测试一下，由于印度尼西亚群岛的水流变化导致西南印度洋温度下降是否会导致东非和东南非降雨量变化的变化。

项目成果

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Development of a protocol to obtain the composition of terrigenous detritus in marine sediments -a pilot study from International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 361

制定获取海洋沉积物中陆源碎屑成分的协议——国际海洋发现计划第 361 次探险的试点研究

DOI：
10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119449
发表时间：
2020-03-01
期刊：
Chemical Geology
影响因子：
3.9
作者：
M. Simon;D. P. Babin;S. Goldstein;M. Cai;Tanzhuo Liu;Xibin Han;Anne A. Haws;M. Johns;C. Lear;S. Hemming
通讯作者：
S. Hemming

Pliocene Palaeoclimate off Southeastern Africa: Insights from IODP Expedition 361

非洲东南部的上新世古气候：IODP 361 号探险队的见解