Late Pleistocene Environmental change reflected by chemical compositions of brachiopod shells from the west Hengchun Hill, Taiwan

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 地球科學系 === 93 === We have analyzed the chemical compositions of brachiopod fossils collected from Toukou and Szekou profiles, Hengchun, Taiwan to construct the Late Pleistocene environment of southern Taiwan. We have collected 124 specimens. Fifty out of these specimens were deter...

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Main Authors: Chih-Yuan Huang, 黃志遠
Other Authors: Horng-Sheng Mii
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Language:zh-TW
Published: 2005
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17403164542599885142
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spelling ndltd-TW-093NTNU51350112016-06-03T04:13:55Z http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17403164542599885142 Late Pleistocene Environmental change reflected by chemical compositions of brachiopod shells from the west Hengchun Hill, Taiwan 台灣南部晚更新世恆春西臺地腕足動物化石殼體化學成份反映之環境變遷 Chih-Yuan Huang 黃志遠 碩士 國立臺灣師範大學 地球科學系 93 We have analyzed the chemical compositions of brachiopod fossils collected from Toukou and Szekou profiles, Hengchun, Taiwan to construct the Late Pleistocene environment of southern Taiwan. We have collected 124 specimens. Fifty out of these specimens were determined well preserved based on the shell microstructure, luminescent characteristics, minor and trace element compositions, and isotope compositions of samples analyzed. The δ18O and δ13C values of well preserved samples are between -0.61 and 1.07 (0.15 ± 0.31;1σ;N = 175) and between -0.15 and 2.62 (1.44 ± 0.56), respectively. Because the seasonal fluctuation of δ18O values were observed within the single shell, there was no significant difference in δ18O values between brachial and pedicle valves of the same specimens, and there is no significant difference in δ18O values among different genera of the same stratigraphic interval, we concluded that the samples studied were in oxygen isotope equilibrium with the seawater they lived in. Sedimentolgic evidence indicate that there was a transgression event from the Hengchun limestone to the overlain Szekou silty mudstone. However, there was no difference in δ18O values crossing this boundary. Therefore, We suggest that this transgression event shown by the facies change, was mainly caused by the tectonic subsidences rather than ice volume effect. We observed the mean δ18O values changed from 0.3 to -0.4 from the bottom of the Szekou Formation to the upper Szekou Formation. The Mg/Ca ratio only showed 0.3 mmol/mol difference (4.3 to 4.0 mmol/mol) between the same interval. Using the Mg/Ca temperature equation established from foraminiferal shells, the 0.3 mmol/mol difference would equivalent to 0.8℃(0.2 in δ18O) change. Thus, the remaining 0.5 difference in δ18O values might indicate decreasing in continental ice volume. Horng-Sheng Mii 米泓生 2005 學位論文 ; thesis 86 zh-TW
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description 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 地球科學系 === 93 === We have analyzed the chemical compositions of brachiopod fossils collected from Toukou and Szekou profiles, Hengchun, Taiwan to construct the Late Pleistocene environment of southern Taiwan. We have collected 124 specimens. Fifty out of these specimens were determined well preserved based on the shell microstructure, luminescent characteristics, minor and trace element compositions, and isotope compositions of samples analyzed. The δ18O and δ13C values of well preserved samples are between -0.61 and 1.07 (0.15 ± 0.31;1σ;N = 175) and between -0.15 and 2.62 (1.44 ± 0.56), respectively. Because the seasonal fluctuation of δ18O values were observed within the single shell, there was no significant difference in δ18O values between brachial and pedicle valves of the same specimens, and there is no significant difference in δ18O values among different genera of the same stratigraphic interval, we concluded that the samples studied were in oxygen isotope equilibrium with the seawater they lived in. Sedimentolgic evidence indicate that there was a transgression event from the Hengchun limestone to the overlain Szekou silty mudstone. However, there was no difference in δ18O values crossing this boundary. Therefore, We suggest that this transgression event shown by the facies change, was mainly caused by the tectonic subsidences rather than ice volume effect. We observed the mean δ18O values changed from 0.3 to -0.4 from the bottom of the Szekou Formation to the upper Szekou Formation. The Mg/Ca ratio only showed 0.3 mmol/mol difference (4.3 to 4.0 mmol/mol) between the same interval. Using the Mg/Ca temperature equation established from foraminiferal shells, the 0.3 mmol/mol difference would equivalent to 0.8℃(0.2 in δ18O) change. Thus, the remaining 0.5 difference in δ18O values might indicate decreasing in continental ice volume.
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Late Pleistocene Environmental change reflected by chemical compositions of brachiopod shells from the west Hengchun Hill, Taiwan
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title Late Pleistocene Environmental change reflected by chemical compositions of brachiopod shells from the west Hengchun Hill, Taiwan
title_short Late Pleistocene Environmental change reflected by chemical compositions of brachiopod shells from the west Hengchun Hill, Taiwan
title_full Late Pleistocene Environmental change reflected by chemical compositions of brachiopod shells from the west Hengchun Hill, Taiwan
title_fullStr Late Pleistocene Environmental change reflected by chemical compositions of brachiopod shells from the west Hengchun Hill, Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed Late Pleistocene Environmental change reflected by chemical compositions of brachiopod shells from the west Hengchun Hill, Taiwan
title_sort late pleistocene environmental change reflected by chemical compositions of brachiopod shells from the west hengchun hill, taiwan
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