The provenance of submarine gravity flow deposits off Southwestern Taiwan / 臺灣西南外海重力流堆積物之可能物源

碩士 / 國立臺灣大學 / 海洋研究所 / 102 / The distinct rainy season in Taiwan frequently induced strong erosion in central mountain range and washing out the surface sediments. The study area of this research is focus on the upper Gaoping submarine canyon, Gaoping shelf, upper Gaoping slope and Fangliao submarine canyon. Gaoping River is one of the main contributors of sediments in the area. According to the sedimentation records, the flooding events usually left turbidite layers deposit on the seafloor and may further triggered gravity flows and transport fresh terrestrial materials into semi-pelagic environment.
Grain size and Pb-210 analysis results are used to distinguish event deposits in cores and discussthe correlation between mineral composition and turbidites. The coarser sediments in the event deposits are usually with higher chlorite which was transported from the Central Mountain Range. The flood events on land can directly bring out coarse sediments from the mountain to ocean. The fine-grained sediments increased during the sedimentation process by gravity redistribution and decreased the chlorites. Follow the gravitational grain size separation of sediments, the fine-grained sediments increased with decreasing chlorite contents. From the Haitang and Morakot Typhoon events, we find the differences of precipitation pattern plays an important role on the characteristic of sediments and their mineral composition.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/102NTU05279023
Date January 2014
CreatorsYu-Tung Chen, 陳昱彤
Contributors蘇志杰
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format80

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