In September 2016, the annual meeting of the International Union for Quaternary Research's
Loess and Pedostratigraphy Focus Group, traditionally referred to as a LoessFest, met in …

The source-to-sink fluctuations of Asian aeolian deposits have been investigated over the
past two decades using multiple mineralogical and geochemical tracers. These source …

Abstract As Charles Darwin anticipated, living fossils provide excellent opportunities to study
evolutionary questions related to extinction, competition, and adaptation. Ginkgo (Ginkgo …

Speleothem CaCO3 δ18O is a commonly employed paleomonsoon proxy. However,
inferring local rainfall amount from speleothem δ18O can be complicated due to changing …

Whether there are links between geomagnetic field and Earth's orbital parameters remains
unclear. Synchronous reconstructions of parallel long-term quantitative geomagnetic field …

Asian summer monsoon (ASM) variability significantly affects hydro-climate, and thus socio-
economics, in the East Asian region, where nearly one-third of the global population resides …

Sub-orbital-scale variations of the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) and its mechanisms
during the Holocene are controversial, partly due to the lack of high-quality records from …

The variability and interaction of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) and mid-latitude
Westerlies have dominated Eurasian hydroclimates over orbital timescales and currently …

East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) variability is primarily responsible for climate change
in East Asia, influencing over a billion lives. The pattern and mechanisms of EASM change …

Sediment provenance is a key issue in understanding the aeolian system of the Taklamakan
Desert, an important source of global dust and the largest sand sea in the midlatitudes …