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Ice-volume-forced erosion of the Chinese Loess Plateau global Quaternary stratotype site

Stevens, T. and Buylaert, J.-P. and Thiel, C. and Újvári, G. and Yi, S. and Murray, A.S. and Frechen, M. and Lu, H. (2018) Ice-volume-forced erosion of the Chinese Loess Plateau global Quaternary stratotype site. Nature Communications, 9 (1). ISSN 2041-1723

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Abstract

The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) utilises benchmark chronostratigraphies to divide geologic time. The reliability of these records is fundamental to understand past global change. Here we use the most detailed luminescence dating age model yet published to show that the ICS chronology for the Quaternary terrestrial type section at Jingbian, desert marginal Chinese Loess Plateau, is inaccurate. There are large hiatuses and depositional changes expressed across a dynamic gully landform at the site, which demonstrates rapid environmental shifts at the East Asian desert margin. We propose a new independent age model and reconstruct monsoon climate and desert expansion/contraction for the last ~250 ka. Our record demonstrates the dominant influence of ice volume on desert expansion, dust dynamics and sediment preservation, and further shows that East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) variation closely matches that of ice volume, but lags insolation by ~5 ka. These observations show that the EASM at the monsoon margin does not respond directly to precessional forcing.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science / természettudomány > QE Geology / földtudományok
Depositing User: Dr. Gábor Újvári
Date Deposited: 11 Sep 2018 10:05
Last Modified: 05 Apr 2023 07:39
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/83400

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