Quartz and K-feldspar luminescence dating of a Marine Isotope Stage 5 megalake in the Juyanze Basin, central Gobi Desert, China》.pdf

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 440 (2015) 96–109 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology journal homepage: /locate/palaeo Quartz and K-feldspar luminescence dating of a Marine Isotope Stage 5 megalake in the Juyanze Basin, central Gobi Desert, China Guoqiang Li a,⁎, Ming Jin a, Yanwu Duan a, David B. Madsen a, Fangliang Li a, Liping Yang b, Haitao Wei a, Fahu Chen a a Key Laboratory of Western Chinas Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China b The School of Earth Science and Resources, Changan University, Xian 710054, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The Juyanze Basin, in the central Gobi Desert of China, contains one of three terminal lakes of the Heihe River, the Received 19 March 2015 second largest inland river in China. The paleoenvironmental record of the region is important since it is a signif- Received in revised form 24 August 2015 icant global dust source region. In this study, a newly developed post-infrared(IR)-stimulated luminescence Accepted 25 August 2015 (IRSL) (pIRIR) dating technique, together with traditional quartz optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, Available online 3 September 2015 was applied to shoreline and deep water sediments obtained from a buried shoreline at ~927 m in the Ejina Basin, ~33 m above the basin