报告题目：Getting salty: Salinity analysis in paleoenvironmental studies
报告人：Professor Thomas J. Algeo
报告人单位：University of Cincinnati, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
报告时间：6月12日（周一）下午3：00
报告地点：图书馆三楼报告厅
主办：国重沉积盆地研究中心、科技处、人教处
报告人简介：
Thomas Algeo completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1989 and worked in the oil patch for several years before joining the faculty of the University of Cincinnati in 1991. He has specialized in the development of elemental proxies for paleoenvironmental analysis, laying the foundation for the modern approach to reconstruction of redox, salinity, and productivity conditions in paleoenvironmental systems. He has studied all of the Big Five mass extinctions and is the author of a leading theory for the Late Devonian extinctions, linking them to the evolution of vascular land plants.
报告简介：
Salinity has been one of the most challenging features of paleodepositional systems to reconstruct. Recent work by Prof. Algeo and his colleagues has demonstrated the robustness of multiple elemental proxies for estimation of watermass salinity in ancient shale/mudstone formations. This talk will review recent work in reconstruction of salinity in epicratonic and continental-margin aqueous systems from Mesozoic to Paleoproterozoic in age, with examples drawn from many regions including the Nanhua Basin of South China. Some of the important findings of this work are that (1) around half of the dozens of epicratonic shale formations examined to date were deposited under brackish or (more rarely) freshwater conditions, rather than fully marine conditions as previously assumed; (2) salinity variation generally correlates strongly with variation in redox and productivity conditions; and (3) the expression in cratonic systems of many geologic events (e.g., the Toarcian OAE) was influenced by salinity fluctuations.
Figure: Reconstruction of watermass structure in the Cryogenian Nanhua Basin of South China, based on multiproxy data including the B/Ga salinity proxy. Note low-salinity surface layer and marine deep layer. Source: Cheng et al. (2021; ESR).
参考文献：
Meng Cheng, Zihu Zhang, Thomas J. Algeo, Shuliang Liu, Xiaodan Liu, Haiyang Wang, Biao Chang, Chengsheng Jin, Wen Pan, Mengchun Cao, Chao Li,Hydrological controls on marine chemistry in the Cryogenian Nanhua Basin (South China),Earth-Science Reviews,Volume 218,2021,103678, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103678.
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