Quaternary dust source variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau》.pdf

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 435 (2015) 254–264 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology journal homepage: /locate/palaeo Quaternary dust source variation across the Chinese Loess Plateau Anna Bird a,⁎, Thomas Stevens a,1, Martin Rittner b, Pieter Vermeesch b, Andrew Carter b,c, Sergio Andò d d e f e e e , Eduardo Garzanti , Huayu Lu , Junsheng Nie , Lin Zeng , Hanzhi Zhang , Zhiwei Xu a Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 OEX, UK b London Geochronology Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London (UCL), London WC1E 6BT, UK c School of Earth Sciences, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UK d Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche e Geotecnologie, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, 20126 Milano, Italy e School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China f Key Laboratory of Western Chinas Environment System, Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The Chinese Loess Plateau in north central China contains one of the most valuable Cenozoic climate archives on Received 22 February 2015 land. Establishing the origin of this substantial archive of aeolian sediments is cr