An, Zhisheng; Kukla, George J; Porter, Stephen C; Xiao, Jule (1991): Description of loess sections in China [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.57076, Supplement to: An, Z et al. (1991): Magnetic susceptibility evidence of monsoon variation on the Loess Plateau of Central China during the last 130000 years. Quaternary Research, 36(1), 29-36, https://doi.org/10.1016/0033-5894(91)90015-W
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Abstract:
The magnetic susceptibility of loess and paleosols in central China represents a proxy climate index closely related to past changes of precipitation and vegetation, and thus to summer monsoon intensity. Time series of magnetic susceptibility constructed for three loess-paleosol sequences in the southern part of the Chinese Loess Plateau document the history of summer monsoon variation during the last 130,000 yr. They correlate closely with the oxygen isotope record of stages 1 to 5 in deep-sea sediments. Soils were forming during intervals of strong summer monsoon, whereas loess units were deposited at times of reduced monsoon intensity. The Chinese loess-paleosol sequence can thus be viewed as a proxy record of Asian monsoon variability extending over the last 2.5 myr.
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Coverage:
Median Latitude: 35.167448 * Median Longitude: 107.667483 * South-bound Latitude: 34.167000 * West-bound Longitude: 103.200000 * North-bound Latitude: 35.750000 * East-bound Longitude: 109.417000
Minimum ORDINAL NUMBER: 1 * Maximum ORDINAL NUMBER: 7
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| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Geocode | |||
| 2 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Geocode | |||
| 3 | AGE | Age | ka BP | Geocode | ||
| 4 | ORDINAL NUMBER | Ord No | Geocode | |||
| 5 | Age, maximum/old | Age max | ka | An, Zhisheng | ||
| 6 | Age, minimum/young | Age min | ka | An, Zhisheng | ||
| 7 | Age, comment | Comm | An, Zhisheng | |||
| 8 | Temperature, relative difference | Temp rel dif | nominal | An, Zhisheng | Interpretation from literature (PKDB) | |
| 9 | Precipitation, relative difference | Precip rel dif | nominal | An, Zhisheng | Interpretation from literature (PKDB) | |
| 10 | Wind direction | dd | deg | An, Zhisheng | ||
| 11 | Wind speed, relative difference | RelWindSp dif | nominal | An, Zhisheng | Interpretation from literature (PKDB) | |
| 12 | Sedimentation rate | SR | cm/ka | An, Zhisheng | Calculated | |
| 13 | Geology, comment | Geo comm | An, Zhisheng |
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