Source-to-sink magnetic properties of NE Saharan dust in Eastern Mediterranean marine sediments: review and paleoenvironmental implications

Factors Controlling Magnetism of Reddish Brown Soil Profiles from Calcarenites in Southern Spain: Dust Input or In-situ Pedogenesis?

“…In contrast, other studies claimed that as the world's largest dust source, the Sahara-Sahel corridor in North Africa generates vast amounts of dust annually, which can be transported over long distances westnorthwards to the Canary Island (Lázaro et al, 2008), the North Atlantic Prospero and Carlson, 1972;Chester et al, 1979), the South American continent (Swap et al, 1992), and northward into the eastern Mediterranean (Yaalon and Ganor, 1979;Ganor and Mamane, 1982;Ganor, 1991), the western Mediterranean (Chester et al, 1984;LoyePilot et al, 1986;Loye-Pilot and Morelli, 1988;Bergametti et al, 1989a,b;Larrasoaña et al, 2015), southern Europe (Prodi and Fea, 1979), and mainland Europe (Prospero et al, 1981;Karyampudi et al, 1999;Zhang and Pennington, 2004;Moreno et al, 2005). The distance between Spain and the central Sahara is <2000 km, and thus should be an important region to deposit the Sahara dust.…”

“…The distance between Spain and the central Sahara is <2000 km, and thus should be an important region to deposit the Sahara dust. Previous studies have shown that aeolian dust originated from Northern Africa (mainly including the north and west Sahara, and Sahel region) contributes significantly to Mediterranean soils (Yaalon et al, 1966;Yaalon and Dan, 1967;Yaalon and Ganor, 1973;Macleod, 1980;Driese et al, 2003;Erel Larrasoaña et al (2015) for western Africa and Avila et al (1997) for the eastern Africa, respectively. Gray arrows indicate the main routes of dust outbreaks toward Mediterranean and continental Europe (Guerzoni et al, 1997) (B,C) are revised from Erel and Torrent (2010).…”

Environmental control on the occurrence of high-coercivity magnetic minerals and formation of iron sulfides in a 640 ka sediment sequence from Lake Ohrid (Balkans)

“…Variations in the concentration of magnetic minerals provide information on changing export of terrigenous sediments from land (DeMenocal et al, 1991;Just et al, 2012;Maher, 2011;Reynolds and King, 1995). Furthermore, variations in the composition of the magnetic mineral assemblages can be used for detecting changes in terrestrial climatic conditions, e.g., weathering and soil formation (Hu et al, 2015;Kämpf and Schwertmann, 1983;Larrasoaña et al, 2015;Lyons et al, 2010;Maher and Thompson, 1992). However, in addition to the detrital magnetic inventory, magnetic minerals form in the course of syn-and post-sedimentary processes.…”

Sensitivity of Sediment Magnetic Records to Climate Change during Holocene for the Northern South China Sea

“…Previous studies suggested that marine sediment was one of the most important signal carriers of climate change. Therefore, marine sediment magnetic records have been becoming another focus of paleaoclimate research (Arai et al, 1997;Kissel et al, 1999;Oldfield et al, 2003;Tang et al, 2003;Kumar et al, 2005;Sangode et al, 2007;Xu et al, 2011;Larrasoaña et al, 2015). Many magnetic results of the SCS sediments were reported since the past decade.…”