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高校地质学报 ›› 2022, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (6): 825-837.DOI: 10.16108/j.issn1006-7493.2022067

• 表生地球化学专栏 • 上一篇    下一篇

全球变暖背景下北美育空河流域化学风化增强

聂浩阳1,李石磊1, 2, 3,陈 旸1, 2, 3*,王洪涛1   

  1. 1. 表生地球化学教育部重点实验室,南京大学 地球科学与工程学院,南京 210023;
    2. 关键地球物质循环前沿科学中心, 南京 210023;
    3. 江苏省气候变化协同创新中心,南京 210023
  • 出版日期:2022-12-20 发布日期:2022-12-20

Enhanced Chemical Weathering in the Yukon River Basin in North America under the Background of Global Warming

NIE Haoyang1,LI Shilei1, 2, 3,CHEN Yang1, 2, 3*,WANG Hongtao1   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China;
    2. Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing 210023, China;
    3. Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing 210023, China
  • Online:2022-12-20 Published:2022-12-20

摘要: 硅酸盐岩风化对气候变化和构造运动的反馈对长尺度气候变化可能起到重要的调节作用,对该反馈过程的定量认识有助于更确切理解地球碳循环的运行规律。通常认为风化类型可分为两种,分别是供应限制和动力学限制。全球变暖可能促进了动力学限制流域的化学风化作用,然而,关于这方面的认识仍很有限。育空河流域是典型的动力学限制风化区域,研究育空河的风化对气候变暖的响应有助于深入认识气候和大陆风化之间的相互作用。正演模型是区分河流风化端元的重要手段,文章利用正演模型对育空河流域从1975年到2019年的主要离子组成的数据集进行分析,并获得了该流域在过去几十年的化学风化速率的变化趋势。结果表明,育空河水化学性质主要受到碳酸盐岩风化和硅酸盐岩风化控制,两者多年平均碳汇通量分别为2.1×1011 mol/yr和4.1×1010 mol/yr,处于世界主要大河碳汇通量的中间水平。更重要的是,在同一时期,伴随着2.2℃的温度增幅和13.7%的径流量增加,流域内的阳离子总通量增加了35.7%,其中硅酸盐岩和碳酸盐岩风化产生的阳离子通量分别增加了41%和35%,阳离子通量/风化速率对气候的敏感性与冰岛地区的研究结果符合的很好,与风化速率加快相对应的,硅酸盐岩风化碳汇通量相对增加了59.6%。尽管碳汇的增加在绝对通量上相比人类化石燃烧产生的碳排放通量微不足道,但是考虑到构造尺度内全球硅酸盐岩风化速率的增强,尤其是在较为寒冷的高纬度地区,额外的二氧化碳固定量可能对地球历史时期的全球气候产生重要影响。

关键词: 化学风化, 碳汇, 水化学, 全球变暖, 育空河

Abstract: The feedback of silicate weathering to climate change and tectonism may play an important role in regulating longterm climate change, quantitative evaluation of this feedback process will help us to more accurately understand how Earth’s carbon cycle works. It is generally believed that there are two weathering types called “supply-limited” and “kinetic-limited”. Global warming may accelerate chemical weathering in the basin under the “kinetic-limited” regimes, however, it remains poorly constrained. The Yukon River Basin is a typical “kinetic-limited” regime. Studying the response of Yukon River weathering to climate warming will help us to deeply understand the interaction between climate and continental weathering. Forward modeling is an important means to distinguish end-members of river weathering. This study estimates the decadal variations in chemical weathering rates in Yukon River Basin with a forward model based on a dataset of major ion composition of the riverine dissolved from 1975 to 2019. The results show that the water chemical properties of the Yukon River basin are mainly controlled by carbonate weathering and silicate weathering. The average annual CO2 consumption rates by silicate weathering and carbonate weathering are 2.1×1011 mol/yr and 4.1×1010 mol/yr, respectively, which are in the middle level of the world’s large rivers. More importantly, during the same period, with a 2.2℃ temperature rise and an increase in discharge by 13.7%, the total flux of cation in the basin is increased by 35.7%. And the cation flux of silicate and carbonate weathering increased by 41% and 35% respectively, the sensitivity of cation flux/weathering rate to climate is in good agreement with the results from Iceland. Corresponding to the accelerated weathering rate, the carbon flux of silicate weathering increased by 59.6%. Although the increase of carbon sink is insignificant in terms of absolute flux compared with anthropogenic carbon emission by contemporary fossil combustion, the additional CO2 sequestration may have an important impact on global climate during Earth’s history, given the increased rates of global silicate weathering within the tectonic scale, especially in the relatively cold high latitude area.

Key words: chemical weathering, carbon sink, water chemistry, global warming, Yukon River

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