Abstract The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) utilises benchmark
chronostratigraphies to divide geologic time. The reliability of these records is fundamental …

Desertification is of pressing environmental concern in large parts of Asia and directly affects
millions of people. Arid Central Asia (ACA) in particular is highly sensitive to desertification …

The thick loess–paleosol succession of central China contains a detailed record of changes
in East Asian monsoon climate since the late Miocene Epoch. The alternating loess …

The desert–loess transitional zone in north-central China has long been thought sensitive to
Quaternary climatic change. However, reconstruction of Quaternary climates in this area has …

Chinese loess has been extensively utilized to produce continuous and high-resolution
climate records of the late Cenozoic. Such work assumes uninterrupted loess deposition …

Chinese loess is regarded as one of the most detailed and complete terrestrial archives of
late Cenozoic climate change. However, high-resolution optically stimulated luminescence …

Mid-latitude arid central Asia (ACA) is one of the driest regions in the world and is a key
source area of global atmospheric dust. Loess records of paleoclimatic changes in ACA are …

The desert/loess transition zone in northern China is sensitive to climate variability, which is
controlled mainly by the relative strengths of the East Asian summer and winter monsoons …

Whether during past climate stages or into a progressively warming world, changes in
precipitation constitute a key component of climatic change. Quantitative proxies for palaeo …

Central Asia (CA) is one of the main loess regions in the world and provides important
information for the understanding of paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental changes …