Author:
Tao Huifei,Hao Lewei,Li Shutong,Wu Tao,Qin Zhen,Qiu Junli
Abstract
The provenance study of the sediments from Qinghai Lake is of great significance for the understanding of geological and climatic evolution processes of the Tibet Plateau on the one hand and for evaluating the controlling factors of the sediment components on the other hand. The samples were collected from five rivers, foreshore, beach, beach bar, and aeolian sand dune in the Qinghai Lake. The bulk geochemical composition, petrography, and mineralogy features of the samples are analyzed. The results show that: 1) Qinghai Lake sediments experienced low-intensity chemical weathering from the source areas to the deposition sites and were affected by some recycled detrital materials and 2) the source rocks for the sediments include felsic rocks (granite, granodiorite, and felsic volcanic rocks), carbonate, metamorphic rocks (marble and meta-volcanic rocks), and clastic rocks with the felsic source rocks to have the most important impact on the chemical compositions of the sediments. The geochemical indicator of Al2O3/TiO2 reflects that the provenance of fine-grained sediments from the center of Qinghai Lake is more mafic than the coarse-grained sediments from the margin of the Qinghai Lake, suggesting that the hydraulic sorting of grain size probably plays an important role in the geochemical compositions of the sediments. The mafic elements were probably preferentially enriched in muds.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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