Provenance fluctuations of aeolian deposits on the Chinese Loess Plateau since the Miocene》.pdf

Aeolian Research 18 (2015) 1–9 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Aeolian Research journal homepage: www.else /loc ate/aeolia Provenance fluctuations of aeolian deposits on the Chinese Loess Plateau since the Miocene Long Ma a,b, Youbin Sun a,⇑, Ryuji Tada c, Yan Yan a,b, Hongyun Chen d, Min Lin e, Kana Nagashima f a State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710075, China b University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China c Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan d Research Center for Loess and Global Changes, Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050803, China e Radiometrology Center, China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing 102413, China f Research and Development Center for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The evolution of the provenance of aeolian deposits on the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) is closely linked to Received 13 February 2015 changes in source aridity and dust transport dynamics. Although previous studies have revealed that the Revised 8 May 2015 provenance of Chinese aeolian deposits may have fluctuated on tectonic timescales, the exact timing and Accepted 8 May 2015 cause of the provenan