Coupling between uplift of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt-NE Tibetan Plateau and accumulation of aeolian Red Clay in the inner Asia began at~ 7 Ma

J Sun, Z Ding, W Xiao, BF Windley - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The Asian interior contains the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB, the longest accretionary
orogen on Earth), the largest mid-latitude desert, and the most widespread late Cenozoic …

Source-to-sink fluctuations of Asian aeolian deposits since the late Oligocene

Y Sun, Y Yan, J Nie, G Li, Z Shi, X Qiang, H Chang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

Loess plateau storage of northeastern Tibetan plateau-derived Yellow River sediment

J Nie, T Stevens, M Rittner, D Stockli, E Garzanti… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Marine accumulations of terrigenous sediment are widely assumed to accurately record
climatic-and tectonic-controlled mountain denudation and play an important role in …

Large-number detrital zircon U-Pb ages reveal global cooling caused the formation of the Chinese Loess Plateau during Late Miocene

H Zhang, H Lu, J He, W Xie, H Wang, H Zhang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The formation and evolution of the landscape of the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) is
debated because of uncertainties regarding dust provenance. We present a quantitative …

Eolian cannibalism: Reworked loess and fluvial sediment as the main sources of the Chinese Loess Plateau

A Licht, A Pullen, P Kapp, J Abell, N Giesler - Bulletin, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The loess and paleosol sequences of the Chinese Loess Plateau are composed of
Quaternary dust, the origin of which has been the subject of considerable debate. Some …

Approaches and challenges to the study of loess—Introduction to the LoessFest Special Issue

RJ Schaetzl, EA Bettis III, O Crouvi… - Quaternary …, 2018 - cambridge.org
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 …

Pre-Quaternary decoupling between Asian aridification and high dust accumulation rates

J Nie, A Pullen, CN Garzione, W Peng, Z Wang - Science Advances, 2018 - science.org
Theories of late Cenozoic climate cooling assume that central Asian aridification and high
dust accumulation rates in the Chinese Loess Plateau and the North Pacific Ocean are …

Quaternary dust source variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau

A Bird, T Stevens, M Rittner, P Vermeesch… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Chinese Loess Plateau in north central China contains one of the most
valuable Cenozoic climate archives on land. Establishing the origin of this substantial …

Binary sources of loess on the Chinese Loess Plateau revealed by U–Pb ages of zircon

X Che, G Li - Quaternary Research, 2013 - cambridge.org
The age distribution of detrital zircon has been used to trace sediment sources. Existing
datasets show great similarity of zircon ages between the loess on the Chinese Loess …

Quantitative estimation of the contribution of dust sources to Chinese loess using detrital zircon U‐Pb age patterns

H Zhang, H Lu, X Xu, X Liu, T Yang… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The origin and provenance of the loess deposits of the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) are
still debated. In order to pinpoint the dust sources, surface samples from the piedmont of the …