Contribution of soil erosion to the evolution of the plateau-plain-delta system in the Yellow River basin over the past 10,000 years

Zhao, Hongfei; Lin, Yunhong; Delang, Claudio O.; Ma, Yue; Zhou, Jie; He, Hongming

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111133

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“…Specifically, in the very fine sand fraction of Yangtze River Estuary sediments, these mica indices ranged from 6.67% to 19.85%, from 42.14% to 65.71%, from 0.69 to 0.90, and from 0.13 to 0.56, respectively. However, in the very fine sand fraction of ancient Yellow River Estuary sediments, these indices ranged from 24.41% to 53.93%, from 9.74% to [60] and Wang [18]).…”

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“…This is also an important reason for the lower mass percentage of mica in the very fine sand fraction of ancient Yellow River Estuary sediments. [60] and Wang [18]).…”

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“…Figure 7. Geological map of the drainage basins in this study (modified based on Hongfei[60] and Wang[18]). …”

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Detrital Mica Composition Quantitatively Indicates the Sediment Provenance along the Subei Coast to the Yangtze Estuary

2022

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The influence of large rivers on the Subei littoral plain area requires more research than the results that have been available up to now. Thus, specific diagnostic indices of detrital mica are successfully applied for the first time to identify the detritus of the Yangtze River and the ancient Yellow River and to analyze their influence on the coast in the Subei littoral plain area. Based on field investigation and sample collection, detrital mica minerals within the 0.063–0.125 mm grain size fraction were selected and identified. Their content/ratio differentiations and possible origins were analyzed. Moreover, specific diagnostic indices were evaluated for detritus identification considering these two large rivers in addition to their provenance influences on the Subei littoral plain area. The results indicate that the detrital mica contents in the Yangtze River Estuary differed from those in the ancient Yellow River Estuary. The mass percentage in the former (average value of 32.2%) was much higher than that in the latter (average value of 13.1%). The former contained abundant weathered mica, with a particle percentage of approximately 50.6%, while the latter contained abundant biotite (with a particle percentage of approximately 40.9%). Differences, including but not limited to those above, could be attributed to basic geological, climatic and hydrodynamic conditions. In particular, the mica indices were clearly distinguished between these two river estuaries. These indices constitute specific diagnostic indices for differentiating river detritus and quantitative contribution analysis of detritus provenance in the Subei littoral plain area. Finally, the changes and quantitative contributions of four diagnostic indices demonstrated that in the Subei littoral plain area, northward from the Yangtze River Estuary to sample site SBY11 located in Yangkou town, Rudong County, detrital micas were mainly affected by the Yangtze River, and southward from the ancient Yellow River Estuary to sample site SBY12 located in Bengcha town, Rudong County, detrital micas were largely affected by the ancient Yellow River. The main mixing area should be located between these two towns. This study provides both a good example and an efficient approach to the application of detrital mica in detritus identification, mixed zone determination, sediment provenance analysis and transport tracing.

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“…This is also an important reason for the lower mass percentage of mica in the very fine sand fraction of ancient Yellow River Estuary sediments. [60] and Wang [18]).…”

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“…This long history of anthropogenic activity alters natural processes in many regions of the globe, from regional hydrology and sediment to perhaps surface processes. Evidence of soil erosion from the Loess Plateau (China) (Zhao et al 2022) and the Titicaca Basin on the Andean Altiplano (Hippe et al 2021); landscape reconstruction from the Land of the Seven Rivers, Kazakhstan (Blättermann et al 2012); sediment indicators from Unterer Landschitzsee and Niedere Tauern (Austrian mountain lake) (Schmidt et al 2002), Sacrower See (NE Germany) (Enters et al 2010), Dian Lake (Hillman et al 2019) and Erhai Lake (China) (Dearing et al 2008), proving that human activities are the driving factor for natural environment evolution since 2000 a BP. Meanwhile, climate change and extreme events can trigger social crises and instability and show how the environment reacts to humans (Zhang et al 2007, Feng et al 2019.…”

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Phased human-nature interactions for the past 10 000 years in the Hexi Corridor, China

Liu

Gao

Zhang

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Located in the eastern section of the ancient Silk Road, the Hexi Corridor is a crucial area where eastern and western civilizations met. Previous studies mainly explore human-nature interactions at a particular period, and there is a lack of phased human-nature interaction studies at long time scales. Here we present the relationships and patterns of interaction between humans and nature in the region over the past 10 000 years and distinguish the stages and mechanisms of interaction, which can be divided into three periods in the region. 10 000–4000 a BP is a period of weak interaction when human activities and natural processes are primarily non-interactive. The evolution of culture advances in its way rather than by environmental changes, and those early cultures do not strongly impact the natural environment. During 4000–2000 a BP, climate change becomes the dominant factor in human adaptation, mitigation, and migration in the region, and extreme short-term changes often impact the social system, intensifying the impact of nature on humans. Therefore, it is a strong interaction period (nature domination). From 2000 to 0 a BP, humans dominate environmental change manifested by surface processes, lake evolution, and regional water resource changes. At the same time, environmental change can backfire on humans, causing a series of social crises. Overall, it is a strong interaction period (human domination). We propose a Hexi model, a weak interaction—strong interaction (nature domination)—strong interaction (human domination) model, validated in other regions of the world for long time scale human-nature interactions.

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“…dams, reservoirs and mining (Vörösmarty et al, 2003;Brunier et al, 2014;Zhao et al, 2015;Alfieri et al, 2017;Kong et al, 2017;Webber et al, 2017;Zhang et al, 2021;Wang et al, 2022). However, human influence on the fluvial 45 catchments can date back thousands of years, to the beginning of the local agricultural revolution (De Moor et al, 2008;Dotterweich, 2013;Ellis et al, 2016;Zhao et al, 2022a).…”

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Regime shift of a large river as a response to Holocene climate change depends on land use – a numerical case study from the Chinese Loess Plateau

Chen

Yan

et al. 2023

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Abstract. The Wei River catchment in the southern part of the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP), is one of the centers of the agricultural revolution in China. The area has experienced intense land use changes since ~6000 BCE, which makes it an ideal place to study the response of fluvial systems to anthropogenic land cover change (ALCC). We applied a numerical landscape evolution model that combines the Landlab landscape evolution model with an evapotranspiration model to investigate the direct and indirect effects of ALCC on hydrological and morphological processes in the Wei River catchment since the mid-Holocene. The results show that ALCC not only leads to changes in discharge and sediment load in the catchment but also affects their sensitivity to climate change. When the proportion of agricultural land area exceeded 50 % (around 1000 BCE), the sensitivities of discharge and sediment yield to climate change increased abruptly indicating a regime change in the fluvial catchment. It is associated with a large sediment pulse in the lower reaches. The model simulation results also show a link between human settlement, ALCC and floodplain development: Changes in agricultural land use changes lead to downstream sediment accumulation and floodplain development, which in turn leads to further spatial expansion of agriculture and human settlement.

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Contribution of soil erosion to the evolution of the plateau-plain-delta system in the Yellow River basin over the past 10,000 years

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Detrital Mica Composition Quantitatively Indicates the Sediment Provenance along the Subei Coast to the Yangtze Estuary

Detrital Mica Composition Quantitatively Indicates the Sediment Provenance along the Subei Coast to the Yangtze Estuary

Phased human-nature interactions for the past 10 000 years in the Hexi Corridor, China

Regime shift of a large river as a response to Holocene climate change depends on land use – a numerical case study from the Chinese Loess Plateau

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