Process of paleofloods in Guanting basin, Qinghai Province, China and possible relation to monsoon strength during the mid-Holocene

Quaternary International

Volumn 321, Issue , 2014, Pages 88-96

  Ma, Minmin ^a   Dong, Guanghui ^a   Chen, Fahu ^a   Meng, Xingmin ^a   Wang, Zongli ^a   Elston, Robert ^b   Li, Guoqiang ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; MONSOON; NEOLITHIC; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOFLOOD; PERIODICITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

CHINA; GUANTING RESERVOIR;

EID: 84893705343     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.05.031     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. An C.B., Tang L.Y., Barton L., Chen F.H. Climate change and cultural response around 4000 cal yr B.P. in the western part of Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Research 2005, 63:347-352.
2. Arz H.W., Lamy F., Pätzold J. Apronounced dry event recorded around 4.2ka in brine sediments from the northern Red Sea. Quaternary Research 2006, 66:432-441.
3. Baker V. Paleoflood hydrology: origin, progress, prospects. Geomorphology 2008, 101:1-13.
4. Benito G., Sánchez-Moya Y., Sopeña A. Sedimentology of high-stage flood deposits of the Tagus River, Central Spain. Sedimentary Geology 2003, 157:107-132.
5. Benito G. Palaeoflood record of the Tagus River (Central Spain) during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 2003, 22:1737-1756.
6. Botzen W.J.W., Van Den Bergh J.C.J.M. Managing natural disaster risks in a changing climate. Environmental Hazards 2009, 8:209-225.
7. Bureau of National Cultural Relics Atlas of Chinese Cultural Relics-Fascicule of Qinghai Province 1996, China Cartograghic Publishing House Press, Beijing, pp. 55-88 (in Chinese).
8. Cai Y.J., Tan L.C., Cheng H., An Z.S., Edwards R.L., Kelly M.J., Kong X.G., Wang X.F. The variation of summer monsoon precipitation in central China since the last deglaciation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2010, 291:21-31.
9. Chen F.H., Zhu Y., Li J.J., Shi Q., Jin L.Y., Wünemann B. Abrupt Holocene changes of the Asian monsoon at millennial- and centennial-scales, Evidence from lake sediment document in Minqin Basin, NW China. Chinese Science Bulletin 2001, 46:1942-1947.
10. 14CLASTERC, IA, CASS (14C Laboratory of Archaeological Science and Techniques Experiment and Research Center, IA, CASS, the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), 2003. Report of Carbon-14 (29). Archaeology 7, 64-68 (in Chinese).
11. 14CLASTERC, IA, CASS (14C Laboratory of Archaeological Science and Techniques Experiment and Research Center, IA, CASS, the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), 2005. Report of ~(14)C Dates (XXXI). Archaeology 7, 57-61 (in Chinese).
12. Cullen H.M., deMenocal P.B., Hemming S., Hemming G., Brown F.H., Guilderson T., Sirocko F. Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian empire, Evidence from the deep sea. Geology 2000, 28:379-382.
13. de Moel H., van Alphen J., Aerts J.C.J.H. Flood maps in Europe - methods, availability and use. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 2009, 9:289-301.
14. deMenocal P.B. Cultural responses to climate change during the Late Holocene. Science 2001, 292:667-673.
15. Dogan U. Holocene fluvial development of the upper Tigris valley (southeastern Turkey) as documented by archaeological data. Quaternary International 2005, 129:75-86.
16. Dong G., Jia X., An C., Chen F., Zhao Y., Tao S., Ma M. Mid-Holocene climate change and its effect on prehistoric cultural evolution in eastern Qinghai province, china. Quaternary Research 2012, 77:23-30.
17. Ely L.L., Enzel Y., Baker V.R., Cayan D.R. A5000-Year record of extreme floods and climate change in the Southwestern United States. Science 1993, 262:410-412.
18. Ely L.L. Response of extreme floods in the southwestern United States to climatic variations in the late Holocene. Geomorphology 1997, 19:175-201.
19. Feng Z.D., An C.B., Wang H.B. Holocene climatic and environmental changes in the arid and semi-arid areas of China: a review. The Holocene 2006, 16:1-12.
20. Gasse F. Hydrological changes in the African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 2000, 19:189-211.
21. He Y.Q., Yao T.D., Shen Y.P., Zhang Z.L., Chen T., Zhang D. Climatic differences in china during the Holocene indicated by the various climatic proxy data from different parts of china. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology 2003, 25:11-18. (in Chinese).
22. Hong Y.T., Hong B., Lin Q.H., Zhu Y.X., Shibata Y., Hirota M., Uchida M., Leng X.T., Jiang H.B., Xu H., Wang H., Yi L. Correlation between Indian Ocean summer monsoon and North Atlantic climate during the Holocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2003, 211:371-380.
23. Howard A.J., Macklin M.G., Bailey D.W., Mills S., Andreescu R. Late-glacial and Holocene river development in the Teleorman Valley on the southern Romanian Plain. Journal of Quaternary Science 2004, 19:271-280.
24. Hu C.Y., Henderson G.M., Huang J.H., Xie S., Sun Y., Johnson K.R. Quantification of Holocene Asian monsoon rainfall from spatially separated cave records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2008, 266:221-232.
25. Huang C.C., Pang J., Zha X., Su H., Jia Y., Zhu Y. Impact of monsoonal climatic change on Holocene overbank flooding along Sushui River, middle reach of the Yellow River, China. Quaternary Science Reviews 2007, 26:2247-2264.
26. Huang C.C., Pang J., Zha X., Zhou Y., Su H., Li Y. Extraordinary floods of 4100-4000 a BP recorded at the Late Neolithic Ruins in the Jinghe River Gorges, Middle Reach of the Yellow River, China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2010, 289:1-9.
27. IA, CASS(Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), QPICRA(Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology) Excavation on the Lajia Site at Minhe county, in 2000. Archaeology 2002, 12-25. (in Chinese).
28. Knox J.C. Sensitivity of modern and Holocene floods to climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews 2000, 19:439-457.
29. Kochel R.C., Baker V.R. Paleoflood hydrology. Science 1982, 215:353-361.
30. Lu H.Y., Yang X.Y., Ye M.L., Liu K.B., Xia Z.K., Ren X.Y., Cai L.H., Wu N.Q., Liu T.S. Millet noodles in Late Neolithic China - A remarkable find allows the reconstruction of the earliest recorded preparation of noodles. Nature 2005, 437:967-968.
31. Macklin M.G., Lewin J. River sediments, great floods and centennial-scale Holocene climate change. Journal of Quaternary Science 2003, 18:101-105.
32. Macklin M.G., Benito G., Gregory K., Johnstone E., Lewin J., Michczynska D., Soja R., Starkel L., Thorndycraft V. Past hydrological events reflected in the Holocene fluvial record of Europe. CATENA 2006, 66:145-154.
33. Macklin M.G., Jones A.F., Lewin J. River response to rapid Holocene environmental change: evidence and explanation in British catchments. Quaternary Science Reviews 2010, 29:1555-1576.
34. Milly P.C.D., Wetherald R.T., Dunne K.A., Delworth T.L. Increasing risk of great floods in a changing climate. Nature 2002, 415:514-517.
35. Overpeck J., Webb R. Nonglacial rapid climate events: past and future. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2000, 97:1335-1338.
36. Peng J.B., Mao Y.L., Du D.J. Research on the Projects Geology of Reservoir of Jishixia Power Station of the Yellow River 1997, Shaanxi Science and Technology Press, Xi'an, (in Chinese).
37. Ramsey C.B. Development of the radiocarbon calibration program OxCal. Radiocarbon 2001, 43:355-363.
38. Reimer P.J., Baillie M.G.L., Bard E., Bayliss A., Beck J.W., Bertrand C.J.H., Blackwell P.G., Buck C.E., Burr G.S., Cutler K.B., Damon P.E., Edwards R.L., Fairbanks R.G., Friedrich M., Guilderson T.P., Hogg A.G., Hughen K.A., Kromer B., McCormac G., Manning S., Ramsey C.B., Reimer R.W., Remmele S., Southon J.R., Stuiver M., Talamo S., Taylor F.W., Vander Plicht J., Weyhenmeyer C.E. IntCAL04 terrestrial radiocarbon age calibration, 0-26 cal kyr BP. Radiocarbon 2004, 46:1029-1058.
39. Shi X.M. Progress of research on palaeofloods. Journal of China Hydrology 2007, 27:24-28. (in Chinese).
40. Staubwasser M., Weiss H. Holocene climate and cultural evolution in late prehistoric-early historic West Asia. Quaternary Research 2006, 66:372-387.
41. Tarasov P., Wanger M. Environmental aspects of Chinese antiquity: problems of interpretation and chronological correlation. Shangdong Daxue Dongfeng Kaogu Yanjiu Zhongxin, Studies of Eastern Archaeology 2006, vol. 2:263-271. Science Press, Beijing, (in Chinese with English abstract).
42. Thorndycraft V.R., Benito G. The Holocene fluvial chronology of Spain: evidence from a newly compiled radiocarbon database. Quaternary Science Reviews 2006, 25:223-234.
43. Wang H., Hong Y.T., Zhu Y.X., Lin Q.H., Leng X.T., Mao X.M. The peat humification records of Holocene climate change in Hongyuan region. Geology Geochemistry 2003, 31:51-56. (in Chinese).
44. Wang Y., Cheng H., Edwards R.L., He Y., Kong X., An Z., Wu J., Kelly M.J., Dykoski C.A., Li X. The Holocene Asian Monsoon: links to solar changes and North Atlantic climate. Science 2005, 308:854-857.
45. Weiss H., Courty M.A., Wetterstrom W., Guichard F., Senior L., Meadow R., Curnow A. The Genesis and collapse of Third Millennium North Mesopotamian Civilization. Science 1993, 261:995-1004.
46. Wilby R.L., Beven K.J., Reynard N.S. Climate change and fluvial flood risk in the UK: more of the same?. Hydrological Processes 2008, 22:2511-2523.
47. Wu W.Y., Liu T.S. Possible rate of the "Holocene event 3" on the collapse of Neolithic cultures around the central plain of China. Quaternary International 2004, 117:153.
48. Wu Q.L., Zhang P.Z., Zhang H.P., Ye M.L., Zhang Z.Q. Apalaeo-earthquake induced damming and bursting of Yellow River and the abormal flood that destroyed Lajia relic. Science in China (Series D) 2009, 39:1148-1159. (in Chinese).
49. Xia Z.K., Wang Z.H., Zhao Q.C. Extreme flood events and climate change around 3500 a BP in the Central Plains of China. Science China Earth Sciences 2004, 47:599-606.
50. Xie D.J. Prehistoric Archaeology of Gansu Province and Qinghai Province 2002, Cultural Relics Press, Bejing, 114 pp. (in Chinese).
51. Yang D.Y., Yu G., Xie Y., Zhan D., Li Z. Sedimentary records of large Holocene floods from the middle reaches of the Yellow River, China. Geomorphology 2000, 33:73-88.
52. Yang X.Y., Xia Z.K., Ye M.L. Prehistoric disasters at Lajia Site, Qinghai, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 2003, 48:1877-1881.
53. Yang X.Y., Xia Z.K., Cui Z.J., Ye M.L. Environmental settings of archeological sites depositional processes and distribution at Guanting basin. Acta Geographica Sinica 2004, 59:455. (in Chinese).
54. Yang X.Y., Xia Z.K., Cui Z.J. Holocene extreme floods and its sedimentary characteristic in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Quaternary Research 2005, 25:81-85. (in Chinese).
55. Ye M.L. Review Lajia site via the Wenchuan earthquake in China. Chinese Cultural Relics News 2008, 7. (in Chinese).
56. Yin Z.Q., Cheng G.M., Li X.L., Wang L.C., Hu G.S., Wei G. Relationships between landslide forming mechanisms and climate changes since early mid-Pleistocene in the upper reaches of Yellow River and the Three Gorges reservoir area. Quaternary Science 2010, 30:37-45.
57. Yu S.-Y., Zhu C., Wang F. Radiocarbon constraints on the Holocene flood deposits of the Ning-Zhen Mountains, lower Yangtze River area of China. Journal of Quaternary Science 2003, 18:521-525.
58. Zhan D.J., Xie Y.B. Palaeoflood Study 2001, China Water Power Press, Beijing, (in Chinese).
59. Zhang X.H., Xia Z.K., Yang X.Y. Further Discussion about abandonace of Lajia Site, Qinghai - the argument against the authour of 'Ancient China's Environmental research'. Archaeology and Cultural Relics 2009, 100-103. (inChinese).
60. Zhang, F.Y., 2007. Study on Evolution Process and Stability of the No.1 Landslide at the Downstream of the Jishixia Hydropower Station. Master thesis, Lanzhou University (in Chinese).
61. Zhou A., Sun H.L., Chen F.H., Zhao Y., An C.B., Dong G.H., Wang Z.L., Chen J.H. High-resolution climate change in mid-late Holocene on Tianchi Lake, Liupan Mountain in the Loess Plateau in central China and its significance. Chinese Science Bulletin 2010, 55:2118-2121.
62. Zhu Y., Chen F.H., Zhang J.W., An C.B. ADiscussion on the effects of deteriorated environment event on the Neolithic culture of China, around 5000 a BP. Progress in Geography 2001, 20:111-121. (in Chinese).
63. Zielhofer C., Faust D. Mid- and Late Holocene fluvial chronology of Tunisia. Quaternary Science Reviews 2008, 27:580-588.