Relationships between surface soil magnetic susceptibility and modern climatic factors in eastern China and their environmental significance

doi:10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2019.04.009

Abstract

Abstract: For proper understanding of the relationships between magnetic susceptibility and environmental factors and the influence of climate, especially the temperature and precipitation, on magnetic susceptibility, surface soil samples were collected from two environmental transections, E-W and N-S, in eastern China, and the magnetic susceptibility of soil samples was measured. Spatial distribution characteristics of soil magnetic susceptibility and its relationships with modern climate parameters such as MAT, MARH, and MAP were analyzed. Results indicate that the χ_lf and χ_fd values are high in the east and low in the west in E-W transection and that χ_lf varies complicatedly with latitude and χ_fd declines toward the north in N-S transection. At 0℃ ≤ MAT ≤ 12℃ or MAP ≤ 1 000 mm, χ_lf rises with the increases of MAT and MAP. At MAT>12℃ or MAP>1 000 mm, χ_lf shows the opposite change. Precipitation plays a primary role in the process of weathering and pedogenesis, and the influence of temperature is secondary. The regression equations between χ_lf and MAP indicate that magnetic susceptibility can be used as a quantitative reconstruction proxy of paleoprecipitation. The research results show that the reconstruction of the paleoenvironment using magnetic susceptibility has certain limitation, and magnetic susceptibility reflects the change in paleoprecipitation well in the area with 200 ≤ MAP ≤ 1 000 mm.

Key words: magnetic susceptibility, surface soil, climate, paleoenvironment reconstruction, eastern China

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GU Yongjian, LI Yumei, HAN Long, SU Xin. Relationships between surface soil magnetic susceptibility and modern climatic factors in eastern China and their environmental significance[J]. , 2019, 36(4): 498-509.

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