Late Quaternary aeolian dust input variability on the Chinese Loess Plateau: inferences from unmixing of loess grain-size records

Prins, Maarten A.; Vriend, Mirjam; Nugteren, Govert; Vandenberghe, Jef; Lu, Huayu; Zheng, Hongbo; Weltje, Gert Jan

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.07.002

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“…Specifically, it is feasible to stipulate environmental conditions that would favor an increasing use of simple clothes and promote a transition from simple to complex clothing. Advances in paleoenvironmental sciences using ice core, speleotherm, and other proxy records permit the reconstruction of past thermal parameters, such as estimates for minimum temperatures and wind chill levels, with increasing resolution (e.g., Lowe and Walker 1997;Grootes et al 2001;Fairchild et al 2006;Prins et al 2007;Wang et al 2008;Wetterich et al 2008). In conjunction with known thresholds and limits of human cold tolerance, these data can be used to assess the extent to which changing patterns of human behavior documented in the archaeological record may be interpretable as cold adaptations.…”

Section: The Paleoenvironmental Contextmentioning

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The Prehistoric Development of Clothing: Archaeological Implications of a Thermal Model

Gilligan

2010

J Archaeol Method Theory

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This paper presents a thermal model for the prehistoric origin and development of clothing. A distinction is drawn between simple and complex forms of clothing, with broad implications for the interpretation of paleolithic technological transitions and the emergence of modern human behavior. Physiological principles and paleoenvironmental data are harnessed to identify conditions requiring simple, loosely draped garments and the more challenging conditions that demanded additional protection in the form of complex garment assemblages. No actual clothing survives from the Pleistocene, yet the archaeological record yields evidence for technological and other correlates of clothing-more evidence than is generally supposed. Major innovations and trends in the distributions and relative frequencies of lithic and other tool forms may reflect the changing need for portable insulation in the context of fluctuating ice age climates. Moreover, the nonthermal repercussions of complex clothing can be connected with archaeological signatures of modern human behavior, notably adornment. Alternative models are less parsimonious in accounting for the geographical and temporal variability of prominent technological and other behavioral patterns in association with environmental change.

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Section: The Paleoenvironmental Contextmentioning

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The Prehistoric Development of Clothing: Archaeological Implications of a Thermal Model

Gilligan

2010

J Archaeol Method Theory

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“…Pretreatment was according to the procedure by Konert and Vandenberghe (1997). The fraction 5.5-16 mm is used, which is mainly transported as suspension load over large distances and therefore relatively continuously deposited (Prins et al, 2007). It is not, or only hardly, affected by secondary processes like soil formation .…”

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Validation of wiggle matching using a multi‐proxy approach and its palaeoclimatic significance

Bokhorst

Vandenberghe

2009

J Quaternary Science

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Bokhorst, M. P. and Vandenberghe, J. 2009. Validation of wiggle matching using a multi-proxy approach and its palaeoclimatic significance.ABSTRACT: Research into global, millennial-scale climate oscillations during the last glacial requires wiggle matching. One method for adequate wiggle matching is based on the dating of the climate proxy records. Luminescence dating methods are needed for estimates of last glacial ages in terrestrial records. However, such dating methods are not accurate enough for millennial-scale wiggle matching. It is shown that a multi-proxy comparison of two sections that are situated close to each other may considerably improve the accuracy of wiggle matching. The method is tested by an application on two loess sections of last glacial age in Vojvodina, Serbia. The climate proxies include magnetic susceptibility, leachate Ba/Sr and grain size. Firstly, single proxy-wiggle matches between both sections are analysed successively with the same and with different proxies. Secondly, a multiproxy wiggle match based on all three proxies of the two sections is presented and compared to the single-proxy tests. In such a procedure, it becomes clear which wiggles are mainly determined by local conditions and which have a more extended significance. It is concluded that a multi-proxy approach results in the best and the most unique wiggle matches.

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“…In the field of sedimentology, eolian sediments with three or more modes are often assigned to polygenetic aggraded, mixed or amalgamated structures. In the field of fly dust, monthly sampling in vertical sections appears to corroborate the predominance of unimodal and bimodal silt in dust plumes and sediments (Prins et al 2007). In spite of this, the evidence of multimodal particle-size distribution in a single dust plume has become more important in present-day research because of the interest in loess storms (e.g., Qin et al 2005) and also tentatively Martian dust (Yizhaq 2005).…”

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An anomalous atmospheric dust deposition event over Central Europe, 24 March 2007, and fingerprinting of the SE Ukrainian source

Hladil¹,

Strnad²,

Šálek³

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Bull. Geosci.

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An anomalous event of Ukrainian quartz-dominated dust deposited in the Czech Republic and adjacent countries on 24 March 2007 was studied with special emphasis on sedimentology, mineralogy and geochemistry. The dust deposition combined a typical eolian depositional mode with one mediated by dirty rain or drizzle. The main stage of sediment deposition was short (several tens of minutes) and synchronous with rapidly increased concentration of particles smaller than 10 μm in the atmosphere above ground. The polydisperse and multimodal sediment consisted predominantly of angular to subrounded quartz particles, of which 80-90 wt.% were silt sized (4-63 μm). A small amount of sand grains up to 0.5 mm in size was regularly observed (≤ 10 wt.%) and was higher than that of particles smaller than 4 μm. This relatively coarse material was transported by atmospheric flows over distances of 1400 to 2000 km. The deposited silt film was fenestrally arranged and showed various reticulate and patchy patterns of several sizes. The intensity of deposition in the main deposition areas corresponded to 2.3 g/m 2 of particulate solids on average. The interpreted depositional processes are based on direct observation and dust microphysics. Besides the preferentially entrained and delivered quartz, the sediment contains also perthitic feldspar, chlorite and chloritoids, and notably low amounts of mica, clay minerals and carbonate. The element content does not contradict the supposed source based on meteorological observations, i.e., from surface argillaceous and sandy soils east of Kherson, Ukraine. Particularly minor and trace element distributions are almost identical and show a nearly perfect match, closely similar to those of standards for the upper crust (not sediments). Total Fe concentrations in the sediment are about 2-3 wt.%, i.e., slightly less than those for the upper continental crust on average, yet with a large proportion of iron still bound in mineral inclusions in quartz and silicates. Smooth REE patterns correspond to the most common multi-cycle eolian material and are typical for the assumed source area. Lead isotope signatures combine a natural lithic imprint and anthropogenic contamination by petrol combustion, thereby giving a somewhat different trend compared to African sources. Palynological analysis enabled tracking of the trajectory of the dust-flow but also identified typical markers, such as ragweed pollen, from the source area.•

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Late Quaternary aeolian dust input variability on the Chinese Loess Plateau: inferences from unmixing of loess grain-size records

Cited by 195 publications

References 34 publications

The Prehistoric Development of Clothing: Archaeological Implications of a Thermal Model

The Prehistoric Development of Clothing: Archaeological Implications of a Thermal Model

Validation of wiggle matching using a multi‐proxy approach and its palaeoclimatic significance

An anomalous atmospheric dust deposition event over Central Europe, 24 March 2007, and fingerprinting of the SE Ukrainian source

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