地球化学
Online ISSN : 2188-5923
Print ISSN : 0386-4073
ISSN-L : 0386-4073
49 巻, 3 号
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2014年度日本地球化学会奨励賞受賞記念論文
  • 堀 真子
    2015 年 49 巻 3 号 p. 115-129
    発行日: 2015/09/25
    公開日: 2015/09/25
    ジャーナル フリー
    Terrestrial carbonates, such as tufas and stalagmites, are unique archives in terms of providing paleo-environmental information of land area, especially in mid-latitudes where records of ice cores and corals are absent. The oxygen and carbon stable isotopic values (δ18O and δ13C) are the most fundamental proxy records, which reflect relative changes in hydrological condition and vegetation, respectively. The recent challenge focuses mainly on how we quantitatively estimate temperature, precipitation and geochemical circulation in the past. Here, I first review the traditional δ18O studies using tufas and stalagmites, and then introduce my challenge to evaluate multiple carbon sources in karst aquifer. Finally, I extended the mixing and partitioning model to the multi-tracers, such as Sr/Ca and REE/Ca ratios. Multi-tracer analysis is one of solutions to understand details of a unique karst system, which is involved by complex geochemical circulation and associated paleo-environmental changes in the catchment area.
企画総説「地球化学の最前線」
  • 岡崎 裕典
    2015 年 49 巻 3 号 p. 131-152
    発行日: 2015/09/25
    公開日: 2015/09/25
    ジャーナル フリー
    Air bubbles trapped in the Antarctic ice revealed that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration during glacial time was estimated to be 80–90 ppm lower than the interglacial level. Deep-ocean holds about 60 times as much carbon as the atmosphere and has played a major role in regulating the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration on glacial-interglacial timescales. This review examines glacial-interglacial variations in ocean circulation. It is likely that cold and salty abyssal water formed in the Southern Ocean distributed in the glacial ocean. Glacial Atlantic meridional overturning circulation was suggested to be weakening but still operating. North Atlantic origin deep water was above ca. 2000 m, exhibiting pronounced hydrographic boundary with underlying southern source abyssal water. The cold and salty abyssal water is expected to be isolated from overlying water masses and to be a carbon reservoir during glacial period. In order to seek the isolated abyssal reservoir with depleted radiocarbon, glacial deep water ventilation has been reconstructed based on radiocarbon age offset between co-existing benthic and planktic foraminifera. However, the reconstructed ventilation records indicated little possibility of the presence of the radiocarbon depleted deep water mass in the glacial ocean. For further study to reconstruct how much old deep water was distributed in the glacial ocean, spatial and temporal change in marine reservoir effect must be constrained.
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