期刊
GEODERMA
卷 271, 期 -, 页码 134-143出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.02.015
关键词
Mineral magnetism; Source tracing; Soil formation; Diagenesis
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资金
- Rhodes University
- South African National Research Foundation
Mineral magnetic properties are commonly used to trace the sources of river and lake sediments with the aim of identifying areas of a catchment experiencing the high rates of soil loss. In some areas, however, there is poor understanding of how magnetic properties are able to discriminate between potential sediment sources. The basis for mineral magnetic source discrimination between topsoils and subsurface material, over different rock parent materials, was investigated in the South African Karoo. The effects of particle size, soil development/alteration and diagenesis processes on the source discrimination were investigated. Good discrimination (up to 100% correct discrimination) was found between the sedimentary sources (soils and subsurface) and dolerite soils due to much higher concentrations of magnetic minerals in the dolerite. There was little evidence of alterations to magnetic properties in subsurface sediments, resulting in only a small ability of properties to differentiate between surface and subsurface sources. It was found that during the development of topsoils there was a loss of high coercivity weakly magnetic grains and an enrichment in small superparamagnetic and stable single domain grains. Particle size was strongly related to magnetic properties with almost all of the secondary superparamagnetic and stable single domain grains created during soil formation being concentrated in the <32 mu m fraction and the loss of high coercivity grains taking place primarily in the >125 mu m fractions. The small ability of sediment to discriminate between surface and subsurface sources was based upon the dissolution of primarily chi(fd) and chi(ARM) carrying grains in the <32 mu m fractions and to a lesser extent the 63-32 mu m fraction. As a result it was recommended that source tracing with the <32 mu m fraction of soils and sediment should be treated separately from the 63-32 mu m and larger particle size fractions. The relationships between particle size and magnetic properties were fairly consistent in all soil samples in each source group, raising the possibility that reliable correction factors could be developed for each source group. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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