Palaeoclimatic records of the loess/palaeosol sequences of the Chinese Loess Plateau

BA Maher - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Orbital-scale Asian summer monsoon variations: Paradox and exploration

H Cheng, H Zhang, Y Cai, Z Shi, L Yi, C Deng… - Science China Earth …, 2021 - Springer
The Asian summer monsoon (ASM) is a vast climate system, whose variability is critical to
the livelihoods of billions of people across the Asian continent. During the past half-century …

Hominin occupation of the Chinese Loess Plateau since about 2.1 million years ago

Z Zhu, R Dennell, W Huang, Y Wu, S Qiu, S Yang… - nature, 2018 - nature.com
Considerable attention has been paid to dating the earliest appearance of hominins outside
Africa. The earliest skeletal and artefactual evidence for the genus Homo in Asia currently …

Timing of Quaternary geomagnetic reversals and excursions in volcanic and sedimentary archives

JET Channell, BS Singer, BR Jicha - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the ages of Quaternary magnetic polarity reversals and magnetic excursions.
Improvements in radioisotopic 40 Ar/39 Ar dating of reversals and excursions reflect the use …

[PDF][PDF] 旋回地层学理论基础, 研究进展和展望

吴怀春, 张世红, 冯庆来, 方念乔… - 地球科学: 中国地质 …, 2011 - earth-science.net
摘要在过去!) 余年中旋回地层学研究得到了极大发展% 对理解和解决地球科学领域众多科学
问题做出了很大贡献& 旋回地层学$9= 2% $</.-/3O.-Q0= & 已被定义为(对地层记录的$ 准& …

Stacked 2.6‐Ma grain size record from the Chinese loess based on five sections and correlation with the deep‐sea δ18O record

ZL Ding, E Derbyshire, SL Yang, ZW Yu… - …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims to establish a stacked climate record of the Quaternary period from the
Chinese loess sequence and to address the forcing mechanisms for the regional climate …

Astronomical timescale and palaeoclimatic implication of stacked 3.6-Myr monsoon records from the Chinese Loess Plateau

Y Sun, SC Clemens, Z An, Z Yu - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
Magnetic susceptibility and grain size records from two continuous red-clay and loess–
palaeosol sequences on the Chinese Loess Plateau have been generated to investigate the …

Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon system: state of the art and outstanding issues

P Wang, S Clemens, L Beaufort, P Braconnot… - Quaternary Science …, 2005 - Elsevier
The Asian monsoon is comprised of the Indian and East Asian subsystems. These two
components are linked to one another in varying degrees by regions of strong sensible …

Astronomical and glacial forcing of East Asian summer monsoon variability

Y Sun, J Kutzbach, Z An, S Clemens, Z Liu… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The dynamics of glacial–interglacial monsoon variability can be attributed to orbitally
induced changes in summer insolation and internal boundary conditions. However, the …

Review of recent developments in mineral magnetism of the Chinese loess

Q Liu, C Deng, J Torrent, R Zhu - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Mineral magnetism of the Chinese loess has been investigated for more than 20 years.
Although there is a consensus that the neoformation of fine-grained maghemite particles in …