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QUATERNARY RESEARCH
卷 81, 期 3, 页码 488-499出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2013.09.006
关键词
OSL dating; Aeolian activity; Holocene climate change; Asian summer monsoon; Qaidam Basin; Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
资金
- China NSF [41290252]
- SKLLQG [SKLLQG1217]
- Qinghai Science 82 Technology Department [2013-Z-943Q]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation project [2012M521822, 2013T60902]
Paleoclimatic reconstruction based on aeolian sediments in the eastern Qaidam Basin (QB) has been hindered by the limited chronological data. Here we present 61 Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) ages. On the basis of these OSL ages and the lithologic stratigraphy, we propose the 'effective moisture index (EMI)' for aeolian sediments to reconstruct the effective moisture change. Based on the EMI from twelve sections, the effective moisture change, moisture sources and relevant mechanisms for paleoclimatic change in the eastern QB are discussed. The results indicate that (1) aeolian deposition started at least before 12.4 +/- 0.7 ka during the deglaciation, the paleosols developed at the early and mid-Holocene, and aeolian sand and loess accumulated at mid- and late Holocene; (2) effective moisture history was: hyper-arid at 12.8-11.6 ka, humid and variable at 11.6-8.3 ka, moderately humid and stable at 83-3.5 ka, and increasingly arid at 3.5-0 ka; (3) the effective moisture change was mainly controlled by the Asian summer monsoon (ASM), which mainly followed the change of Northern Hemispheric summer insolation, and the westerlies strengthened and increased the aridity in the QB when the ASM shrank. (C) 2013 University of Washington. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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